[Crib-list] Friday, May 19, 2006 -- Workshop of interest to the COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON Community (RM. 32-144 from 12:30 - 1:30 PM)

[Shirley Entzminger]

			Workshop of interest to the
		     COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON 
				Community


DATE:		FRIDAY, MAY 19, 2006
TIME:		12:30 PM
LOCATION:	Building 32, Room 144 (Stata Center)

(Pizza and beverages will be provided.)


TOPIC:		Interactive Supercomputing's Star-P Platform:

		Introduction to Star-P for use with MATLAB (r) & 
		Transitioning from MPI, C, or Fortran to "Parallel
		MATLAB" for large data / high performance

SPEAKERS:	Alan Edelman, Ilya Mirman, Sudarshan Raghunathan 


ABSTRACT:

The Star-P parallel computing platform runs on high performance computers 
while clients such as MATLAB run as a browser onto the HPC.  This 
platform, now a highly popular combination of technologies allows users to 
more readily code parallel applications and make use of the many MPI codes 
available completely from inside the MATLAB environment.  We will 
illustrate the power of our simple abstractions and give a demo of Star-P 
in action.  Users will see the ability to manipulate data sets unimagined 
on the desk top with the potential of parallel computing speeds, while 
maintaining the desktop look and feel.

Our target audience includes

1) 	anyone wishing to go parallel for the first time but prefers to 
   work on the workstation or laptop in the familiar MATLAB environment.

2)	experienced MPI programmers and users working with large data sets 
   who would like to explore or continue development in a MATLAB 
   environment that supports parallelism with large data sets.  Such users 
   can "plug in" their MPI codes and continue working from the desktop 
   environment.

3)	users who need to run legacy or recent standalone serial C or 
   Fortran programs many times in so-called multi-tasking mode on large 
   data sets and wish to have the data available in the desktop 
   environment

This workshop is by invitation, by submitting an email to edelman at mit.edu 
with your affiliation, a description of your application, and an 
additional comment if you are currently working in MPI or would like to 
task parallel C or Fortran.

Additionally, interested attendees can sign up for ISC's "early adopter" 
program, gaining access to the latest the product can offer, and the 
chance to provide feedback at an early stage so as to influence the 
development of Star-P.

Interactive Supercomputing is an MIT start-up now in its second year of 
operation.  The original Star-P research project was a winner of the $1K 
warm-up round for software in the MIT $50k competition.

MATLAB is a product of the Mathworks, Inc.  This and other marks are 
property of their respective owners.

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