Solution for the week of November 30, 2015:   The "Langton's Ant in OpenMP solution zip file" at the bottom of the challenge contains a solution.   http://hpcuniversity.org/students/weeklyChallenge/113
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RELEASE DATE: November 30, 2015   TITLE: Langton's Ant in OpenMP   SUMMARY: Your challenge is to parallelize a model of Langton's Ant using OpenMP.   QUESTION: You are provided with starter code in the "Langton's Ant in OpenMP starter zip file" below. Your challenge is to add OpenMP...
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RELEASE DATE: November 2, 2015 SUMMARY: You challenge is to write a version of a popular cellular automaton using C and X11. QUESTION: Langton's Ant is a popular cellular automaton. The Wikipedia page for it provides a decent introduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langton's_ant Your challenge is to write a version that uses C and X11 to model the ant through 200...
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July 27-31, 2015 – Durham, North Carolina Participants in this workshop will learn the basics of mobile app development in the context of Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices. We'll use Xcode, Apple's development environment, to create apps which we can run in the simulator as well as on actual devices. We have several iPads and iPods available, but feel free to bring your own...
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  XSEDE in the News   XSEDE: More Than Just Supercomputers — It’s How To Use Them, Too! To many familiar with the world of high-performance computing, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) means ‘supercomputers’ and not much more. Often, success stories involve a research team using XSEDE-allocated supercomputers like...
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Introduction to Computational Thinking June 15-18, 2015 - Utah Valley University, Orem Utah An interdisciplinary exploration of modeling and simulation tools and curriculum, with a hands-on and minds-on approach to introductory science, math, and engineering across the physical, life, and computer sciences. For more information, please visit http://www.computationalscience.org ...
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Application Deadline - March 20, 2015 As part of the Blue Waters efforts to motivate and train the next generation of supercomputing researchers, the program is sponsoring 20 undergraduate research interns each year. The goal is to engage undergraduate students in petascale computing research and development projects. The program provides each student a stipend totaling $5000 and a...
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HPC in the News Mark Your Calendar - XSEDE15 July 26-30, 2015 - St. Louis, Missouri   The 4th annual conference will showcase the discoveries, innovations, challenges and achievements of those who utilize and support XSEDE resources and services, as well as other digital resources and services throughout the world. This year's theme is ...
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HPC In the News   Cray Launches Hadoop into HPC Airspace HPCwire There has been little doubt that the convergence of traditional high performance computing with advanced analytics has been steadily underway, fed in part by a rush of new tools, frameworks and platforms targeting the big data deluge. And when one thinks about the old guard of supercomputing, Cray is one...
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SUMMARY: This problem challenges you to create a hybrid MPI/OpenMP parallel program that simulates a disease model. The disease model is a simple SIR (susceptible, infected, recovered) model with parameters for initial number of susceptibles and recovery rate. QUESTION: The model works as follows. At each time step, - the number of susceptibles decreases by a rate called "get...
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