[brlug-general] LSU is offering a class taught by Dr. Thomas Sterling, the inventor of the Beowulf Supercomputer!

[Dustin Puryear]

That's rather interesting..

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Tuesday, October 31, 2006, 9:23:33 AM, you wrote:

> LSU is billing him as the inventor, but Wikipedia lists someone else.
> Anyone know for sure?

> I just thought this was interesting...  Looks like a hands on class
> for undergrads and grads.
> It's CSC 7600 + CSC 4999 section 14 - offered in spring of 2007.
> He's probably just a visiting professor, but I'm still proud of the
> LSU CSC Dept!
> If I was still in school, I'd take the class.

> Introduction and overview of HPC,
> Large scale applications and parallel algorithmic methods,
> Enabling technologies,
> System single node and parallel architectures and commodity clusters,
> Performance metrics, monitoring, measurement, and benchmarking, and
> Programming methods and tools for capacity and capability computing.