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Report for University of Hawaii Summer Institute 2005
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Report of the
UH High Performance Computing (HPC)
Summer Institute 2005
July 25 – August 5, 2005
Introduction
The University of Hawaii (UH) HPC Summer Institute (SI) was held July 25 – August 5,
2005, in Honolulu, HI. This is the second time that UH has offered a PET SI. Sixteen
students, eight from UH, two from Maui Community College, two from the University of
Alaska, two from the University of Texas – El Paso, one from Florida ASM, and one
from Spelman College attended the SI. The UH SI was organized and managed by Dr.
Susan T. Brown.
Objectives
The objectives of the SI were to give the students exposure to several aspects of HPC to
spark an interest in future careers in HPC, to build confidence in their ability to compete
in the field of HPC, and to build the basic familiarization and skill sets necessary to be
competitive as interns and job candidates in the HPC field.
Highlights
The highlights of the UH SI included the following:
Guest lectures on scientific visualization, including the use of Glut and Open GL by
Dr. Robert Moorhead, MSU.
Guest lecture introducing the students to parallel computing by Dr. David Cronk,
UTK.
Guest lecture giving the students an overview of the HPC Modernization Program
Office by Myles Hurwitz, DoD.
Tour and overview of the MHPCC, Maui.
Tour of the Hosmer Grove Haleakala National Park and a visit to the telescope at
Haleakala.
Exposure to various distance technologies (Polycom and Access Grid) by using them.
Presentation of student projects using the Access Grid.
Agenda and Activities
The schedule of the 2005 UH SI was similar to last year, with some exceptions.
Based on feedback from the evaluations from last year, we shortened the trip to Maui.
Rather than spend 2 days in Maui, we went on a 1-day field trip, visiting both MHPCC
and the telescope at Haleakala. This year’s evaluations showed an increased appreciation
of the trip to Maui.
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Similarly, the guest lectures received mixed reviews from the students last year. This
year, we limited the guest lectures to speakers that we knew would be vibrant and
interesting, and to subjects that would be very relevant. We also incorporated a thread
into the guest speaker program, whereby the students experienced various forms of
distance technology (Polycom and Access Grid) and were given short tutorials on each.
They were then asked to evaluate their experiences on them. They found that portion to
be very educational.
In 2005 we moved the Scientific Visualization segment to the first week so that the
students would work on that module before creating their clusters. In this way, each
student would have their own machine to do the exercises. This worked out better than
last year.
Sunday, July 24, 2005 Activity
Students arrive from off-island
Monday, July 25, 2005 Activity
9:00 AM Welcome, registration for Oahu students
9:15 AM Overview of Institute, Outline of program,
Expected Outcomes, Introductions, Icebreaker
9:45 AM Install operating system on computers
10:30 AM Break
10:45 AM Continue installation
12:00 Noon Lunch
1:00 PM Continue installation
2:30 PM Break
2:45 PM Finish installation and test machines
Tuesday, July 26, 2005 Activity
9:00 AM Unix tutorial
10:30 AM Break
10:45 AM C-tutorial
12:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM C-tutorial (con’t)
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2:15 PM Overview of PET Program Opportunities
2:45 PM Break
3:00 PM Lecture: Intro to Scientific Visualization
3:30 PM Install glut and sample programs
5:00 PM Dinner
6:00 PM Lab open
9:00 PM Lab closed
Wednesday July 27, Activity
2005
9:00 AM Lecture: Intro to OpenGL and glut (w/ examples)
10:30 AM Break
10:45 AM Lab: OpenGL basics and options
12:00 Noon Lunch
1:00 PM Lecture: SV Enabling Technologies
1:30 PM Lecture: Geometrical Transforms and Viewing
2:15 PM Break
2:30 PM Lab: More OpenGL
3:30 PM Lecture: Scalar Vis Techniques
4:15 PM Lab: 2D Scalar Vis (colormapping)
6:00 PM Lab open
9:00 PM Lab closed
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Thursday July 28, 2005 Activity
8:00 AM ERDC Intern Presentations
9:30 AM Lab: 2D Scalar Vis (contouring)
10:00 AM Lab: 3D Scalar Vis (isosurfaces)
10:30 AM Break
10:45 AM Lecture: 3D Scalar Vis
11:15 AM Lab: 3D Scalar Vis (volume rendering)
12:00 Noon Lunch
1:00 PM Lecture: Flow Visualization
1:30 PM Lab: Flow Vis (colorwheel)
2:15 PM Break
2:30 PM Lab: Flow Vis: (tufts)
3:15 PM Lab: Flow Vis: (flowlines)
7:00 PM Pick up snack from Jennifer
Friday July 29, 2005 Activity
9:00 AM Maui Tour
9:30 AM Introduction and Overview of Computer Floor
10:00 AM MHPCC Overview Visualization Center
10:15 AM Demos:
o AMOSphere
o TUSW
o Proteomics
10:30 AM Questions
10:50 AM Pick up lunches
11:00 AM Depart MHPCC
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12:30 PM Lunch
1:15 PM Depart lunch site
2:00 PM Arrive MSSS
4:00 PM Depart MSSS
Monday August 1, 2005 Activity
9:00 AM Guest Lecture: Introduction to Parallel Computing
9:30 AM Introduction to the MHPCC
10:00 AM IBM SMP Hardware Overview
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM Introduction to the SQUALL system
11:45 AM Lunch
12:45 PM Parallel Operating Environment
1:30 PM Parallel Operating Environment Lab
3:00 PM Break
3:15 PM FORTRAN tutorial
4:15 PM Loadleveler lecture
Tuesday August 2, 2005 Activity
9:00 AM Guest Lecture: The DoD HPC Modernization Office
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM Loadleveler lab
11:00 AM MPI lecture
12:15 PM Lunch
1:15 PM MPI lecture (con’t)
2:15 PM Break
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2:30 PM MPI lab exercises
6:00 PM Lab open
9:00 PM Lab closed
Wednesday August 3, Activity
2005
Cluster Configuration
Thursday August 4, Activity
2005
9:00 AM Sample problem solving
11:00 AM Guest Lecture: Low Reynolds effects on biomimetic UAV
wing design
11:45 AM Lunch
12:45 PM Prepare presentations
6:00 PM Lab open
9:00 PM Lab closed
Friday August 5, 2005 Activity
9:00 AM Final presentations
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List of Students
We recruited primarily from UH campuses, giving priority to U.S. citizens. There were
still open spots after the UH qualified applicants were accepted, so then we looked at
applications from other MSIs, again giving priority to U.S. citizens. Then we re-
evaluated students from UH that were not U.S. citizens but contributed to work that was
done by U.S. citizens, or were students who plan to remain in the U.S. and become
citizens or get accounts on DoD computers and continue to do government work. The
following students were selected for the 2005 UH SI. All were U.S. Citizens except
where noted.
Name School
Audrey Alstrom University of Alaska Fairbanks,
Kuskokwim Campus
Nickolas Christopher Florida A&M
Jennifer DeLeon Maui Community College
Hiep Van Nguyen1 University of Hawaii Manoa
Enoch Peter Harnisch University of Hawaii Hilo
Andreas Koga University of Hawaii Manoa
Guangxia Cao2 UH Manoa
Tasheeta Miller Spelman College
Jamie Nava University of Texas El Paso
Aileen Ng University of Hawaii Manoa
Nidia Pedregon University of Texas El Paso
Novelo3
Ryan Smith University of Hawaii Manoa
James Sparks Maui Community College
Richard Stevens III University of Alaska Fairbanks
Jennifer Tom University of Hawaii, Maui Outreach
Donald Tripp University of Hawaii, Hilo
1
Citizen of Vietnam
2
Citizen of China
3
Citizen of Mexico
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Evaluations
The evaluations are presented in unedited form. Therefore, comments are youthful and
immature, as well as thoughtful and insightful.
UHSI 2005 Evaluation Results
1 - strongly disagree, 2- disagree, 3 - no opinion, 4 - agree, 5 - strongly agree
Statement 5 4 3 2 1 Ave Comments
Course Overall I enjoyed the visualization section. I was
surprised with how (relatively) easy it is to
create 3D applications.
Awesome
excellent depth; informative
Excellent!
Very good
I was rushed through topics and wanted to
learn subjects more in depth.
Should have Tests. Earn a Certificate, credit,
or a plaque. Bonus is I'm happy to take 2 great
books and CDs.
The UHSI Summer Institute was the
the right length (2 weeks). 6 4 1 4 1 3.6 too short (x5)
The balance between lab and lecture too much lecture (x5)
was just right. bit more lab would be good
4 5 1 5 1 3.4 not enough hands on
The content gave a good introduction
to HPC. 12 4 4.75
I learned a lot from the experience.
12 4 4.75
Statement 5 4 3 2 1 Ave Comments
Instructors
Moorhead!!:)
Very good lectures. I enjoyed them very much.
Keep up the good work, don't take it easy on us
Great!
Materials were structured well.
Some instructors said not to worry cause some
lessons are not important to completely follow.
Interactive lectures are more effective.
The instructors were well-prepared.
7 6 3 4.25
They answered questions well. 8 6 2 4.4
They were easy to follow. Some were really good, some a little too long &
2 7 6 1 3.6 dry
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What did you like best about the no response
instructors? They had a thorough knowledge of the subject
areas in which they were teaching.
They were all very friendly and showed
disposition.
The lab of Linux
Their interaction w/the students
vast knowledge
They are experts in their fields which was great
no response (x3)
Willingness to share
easily accessible
They made the class interesting.
Swanson is the Best! Clearly presented
materials!
Easy going, helpful, good sense of humor,
knowledgeable in field
They knew a lot.
Statement 5 4 3 2 1 Ave Comments
What did you like least? Many times the instructors went too fast
through detailed material. It became hard to
follow and visualize.
Too depth of topics for such a short lecture
time slot.
Some of them did not seem prepared and
rushed through a bunch of slides filled with
text.
Nothing
We were not able to get more time with them in
asking questions.
more clustering
(struck out)
no response (x4)
Length of lectures & density of material
covered in such a short period of time.
They seemed to rush through things.
n/a
People are late, unprepared, materials
outdated.
boring - sometimes
Guest Lectures Swanson rocks!
Some didn't allow time to try their stuff out -
just talked.
The Thursday's guest lecture may be put
earlier.
Always very interesting in learning new stuff.
Interesting shit
The guest lectures were interesting.
7 9 4.43
The guest lectures were a waste of
time. 3 2 11 1.5
The topics were well-chosen. 7 6 3 4.25
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The use of Access Grid and Polycom
taught me something about
technology. 11 3 2 4.6
Statement 5 4 3 2 1 Ave Comments
Day trip to Maui It was very interesting to see the computers
and how they used them.
Big Iron!
Include Maui/Hawaii history on plane/bus ride.
I would do this next year if needed
very good
Nice break from lecture and lab
fun
The trip to Maui was well-organized. One n/a
It didn't seem to be organized - we sat around
a lot. It would be nice to sleep there instead of
travel early in the morning because that made
a lot of people grumpy and sleep during the
8 2 2 3 4 tour instead of pay attention.
I learned a lot on the excursion. 9 4 2 4.5 One n/a
The visit to MHPCC was worthwhile. One n/a
11 2 2 4.6 didn't see anything at MHPCC
The visit to the summit was 555
worthwhile. Didn't receive the email on the summit and was
11 2 2 4.6 left to be cold :(
The trip should be included in the
UHSI 2006. 12 2 1 4.7 One n/a
Student Assistants Kendra!!:)
They were always trying to help!
Very good and helpful. Very patient and nice.
Shark!
Needed and useful
Sometimes they were easier to understand
than the instructors.
They h[unreadable]
Kendra seemed a bit lost, Mano knew his stuff.
Kendra is really nice and very patient and
willing to help.
great people
The student assistants were helpful.
7 6 3 4.25
They were accessible. 6 8 2 4.25
They were never rude. 6 7 3 4.2
They were knowledgeable. 7 6 3 4.25
Statement 5 4 3 2 1 Ave Comments
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Are you willing to work as a student Yes - Nickolas Christopher:
assistant next year? Nchristopher@gmail.com
no response (x2)
no
yes: ncpedregon@utep.edu
yes (x2)
yes - Donald Tripp, dtripp@hawaii.edu
Yes! Richard Stevens
N (x4)
Y, Ryan N. Smith
yes - Jamesspa@hawaii.edu,
MaJik@Hawaii.rr.com
Housing :(
barely passing
The dorms were acceptable. The dorms were in the worst condition
compared to the other dorms on campus.
Some students aren't used to living in such
conditions and it was very hard to adapt.
It would be great to have nicer dorms.
Everything else was GREAT!
The dorms are not very nice.
The dorms were not very clean.
Roaches are cool
N/A (x2)
The dorms are overridden with roaches, and
very noisy.
5 5 4 2.1 Dorms Very Very Very Bad.
The cafeteria was acceptable. It would be nice to have an Aloha BBQ on
Sunday before to meet everybody. Thought
the Thursday BBQ went well and allowed a bit
of closure on the whole course.
n/a
4 5 7 1 3.7 Cafeteria was good.
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Summary
The PET UH SI 2005 was successful and an improvement over the 2004 experience in
the following aspects:
o The Maui trip was more valuable for the time and effort spent, as
exhibited by the student evaluations. A 1-day trip is adequate for our
needs.
o The Scientific Visualization segment was held before the clusters were
built, which engaged the students more.
o The guest speakers talked on topics more engaging to the students, and we
had fewer of them.
o We incorporated different technologies into the program.
Areas of improvement for next year:
o The students are still dissatisfied with the dormitory accommodations.
These are the only affordable choice near campus during this time period,
and we are not convinced that other accommodations would be much
better. When there are not enough applicants to fill the slots from UH
campuses, we want to accept students from other MSIs. If we put them up
in a hotel, that would not be possible. We choose, therefore, to continue
with the dorm housing.
o One of the instructors moved too quickly through his material and used
some outdated material. The material will be updated before the next
summer session, and we are working with the team on the pace of the
instruction.
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Photos
Some photos taken during the Institute are presented as follows:
Figure 1. Dr. Moorhead lectures the students. Figure 2. Dr. Moorhead & Dr. Brown help
students during lab.
Figure 3. Group Photo of UH SI 2005 students.
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