Louisiana State University will host the Beowulf Boot Camp, July 6-10, on the LSU campus. The course offers students and teachers a unique opportunity to work with advanced research technology not usually available in a typical classroom setting.
During Beowulf Boot Camp 2015, students will work hands-on with a number of LSU professors as they learn how to build and use supercomputers.
- Students will engage in the following activities:
- Building a computer cluster from scratch
- Installing the Linux operating system on the computer they’ve built
- Connecting computers put together by their peers to make a mini-supercomputer
- Learning how to program a mini-supercomputer in parallel with Python
- Interactive activities to help understand how Parallel computing works in Supercomputing
- Running performance benchmarks to determine how your cluster ranks in comparison with the fastest and largest supercomputers in the world.
