This event is a free, hands-on, interactive workshop that provides a pragmatic introduction to Parallel Programming with Python at RCC.

Python is an increasingly popular platform for scientific computing applications. If you wish to take advantage of many Python scientific computing tools on the HPC, you will need to parallelize your code. This workshop provides a broad hands-on introduction to the tools and techniques for using parallel Python on the HPC and Spear.

Workshop Format

This is an interactive, hands-on workshop. It will be held in a fully-equipped classroom laboratory with computers. Attendees may bring their own notebook computers, but this will not be necessary.

Topics Covered

Specific topics covered include:

• Introduction to Parallel Python
• Distributing Python scripts over multiple nodes
• Python Multiprocessing

Instructor

This workshop is led by Bin Chen, Applications Specialist at RCC. Dr. Chen has a degree in astrophysics from the University of Oklahoma. He has been evaluating Python for scientific computing applications for several years.

Location

The location of these workshops is Dirac Science Library Room 152 (map). NOTE: The entrance is located on the southeast corner of the building, across from the Oceanography building next to the parking garage. Use that entrance, not the main library entrance.