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H   H  PPP    CCC                           UK  NATIONAL  HPC  SERVICE
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HHHHH  PPP   C      x  x                    EPCC and CCLRC Daresbury
H   H  P     C   C   xx                     Laboratory are members of
H   H  P      CCC   x  x                    the HPC-UK partnership

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HPCx User Mailing 108                                  20 October 2006
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Contents

**  Course: Tools for High Performance Computing

**  17th Machine Evaluation Workshop


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Greetings--


COURSE: TOOLS FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

10th November 2006
CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire.

Registration is now open to HPCx users for this one-day HPCx training
course, to be held at the CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory on
Friday 10th November 2006.  The course is suitable for both new and
established HPCx users and will cover parallel commercial profiling
and debugging tools such as Vampir and Totalview along with IBM tools
such as pdbx, Xprofiler, MPItrace and Hpmcount.  The course will also
include a session on Fortran Software Tools covering software quality,
software transformation and software understanding.

For more information please see:

 http://www.hpcx.ac.uk/support/training/tools4HPC.html


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17TH MACHINE EVALUATION WORKSHOP

Tuesday-Wednesday, 5-6 December
CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory

Daresbury Laboratory's 2006 Machine Evaluation Workshop will be held
on 5th and 6th December as part of the EPSRC's Distributed Computing
Support Programme. This Workshop is now established as a leading
national event dedicated to distributed high performance scientific
computing. The principle objective is to encourage close contact
between the research communities from the Mathematics, Chemistry,
Physics and Materials Programmes of EPSRC and the major vendors of
workstations, software and peripherals.

You are invited to attend this year's workshop, which will have a
format similar to that of previous years with about a dozen major
vendors making 20-minute presentations on topics such as hardware,
compilers, graphics, storage, networking etc. In past years the
audience has been very appreciative of the technical content of these
talks and we have encouraged the speakers nominated by the vendors to
focus their presentations accordingly. Important components of the
workshop include the availability of systems for benchmarking
evaluation purposes, plus the exhibition itself. Vendors are providing
Internet access to these systems prior to the event, and the
availability of products on the day will help delegates evaluate the
machines. We hope to make loaned systems available from the 4th
December for the duration of the event.

For further details, and to register, please go here:

 http://www.cse.clrc.ac.uk/disco/mew17/mew17.html