On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Martin Chiteri wrote:
Any opportunities for streaming the talk online? Some of us live far off from the city to be able to be there on time or in person.
Thank you.
Martin.
On Apr 23, 2013 7:26 PM, "Phares Kariuki" <phares.kariuki@gmail.com> wrote:27th of April… This Saturday…On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Brian Ngure 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.
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