When is the date On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Brian Ngure <brian@pixie.co.ke> wrote:
Hi Phares,
The date? On Apr 23, 2013 6:16 PM, "Phares Kariuki" <phares.kariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
This will be the first in a series of workshops on Parallel Programming as part of the iHub Cluster's efforts to spread use of HPC's in Kenya's markets. The session starts at 9 am and ends at 12 pm at the iHub Cluster, 1st Floor, Bishop Magua building. Snacks will be served. There will be a short overview presentation on what the Cluster has been up to, which projects are running and how you can help.
The workshops will be conducted by Conrad Akunga, a seasoned entrepreneur, Software Developer who is also a Microsoft MVP (Most Valued Professional) for several years running. *Curriculum*
- - What is parallel programming - - Need for performance - Barriers in traditional programming - Concurrency, parallelism & distribution - Opportunities (security, data mining, AI, multimedia, modeling, etc) - Parallel hardware and software - - Basics (caches, memory, instruction parallelism) - Processes, tasks & threads - SIMD, MIMD, interconnected networks - Issues for consideration & performance - Shared memory programming with threads - - Creating, starting, stopping, suspendng - Shared data structures - Controlling access to data structures (semaphores, locks, mutexes, etc) - Thread safety - Shared memory programming with OpenMP - Other shared memory programming models - Distributed memory programming (MPI) - Parallel program development - Attendance Requirements & Considerations - - Basic appreciation of programming - Note taking - Code samples will be in C++, C#, F# & VB.NET
You can register here for the class.
http://ihubcluster.eventbrite.com/
-- Regards,
Phares Kariuki
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