SCD offers seminar on the IBM POWER4 system (bluesky)

The IBP SP-cluster system bluesky

SCD will offer a seminar called "Introduction to using the IBM POWER4 system" in March, April, and May 2003 from 08:30–16:30 at NCAR's Foothills Laboratory, Building 2, Room 1001, in Boulder.

IBM's Jim Tuccillo, a former site analyst at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction, will present the seminar.

This two-day seminar is geared toward experienced users of the IBM SP systems at NCAR who want to learn to use the POWER4-based Cluster 1600 system (bluesky). The seminar would also be appropriate for new users who have recently attended the seminar "Introduction to the IBM SP-cluster systems."

Topics to be covered include:

• POWER4 architecture
• Node characteristics
• Interconnect fabric performance
• Performance expectations
• Compiling issues
• 64-bit addressing executables
• LoadLeveler issues
• MPI task placement
• Environment variables
• Hardware Performance Monitor
• Code optimization issues.

Preregistration deadline for the first seminar is 19 March 2003. You must preregister to receive your IBM Fortran manuals, POWER3 and POWER4 Redbooks, and a copy of the class notes. To register, please contact Janie Young, 303-497-1288 or janie@ucar.edu by 19 March 2003.

This seminar will be repeated on 16–17 April and 22–23 May 2003. Preregistration deadlines for those events will be approximately one week before each seminar.

http://www.scd.ucar.edu/dir/seminars.html