High Performance Computing Interest Group - University of the Witwatersrand

This is a repo that contains notes and code for the HPC interest group at the University of the Witwatersrand. We are a student-run organisation that aims to educate undergraduate students in useful HPC skills.

See below for a list of previous talks/tutorials.

Contents

🐧 Compiling / General Linux

This section involves learning how to become proficient in Linux, including using the terminal, how to compile software from source and how to use Vim!

• Bash and Shell Programming
  • Intro to Bash
  • Short TL; DR
  • More Advanced Shell Programming
• Compiling
  • Makefiles
  • Compiling From Source
    • Tutorial - Compiling BTOP
• Vim

⛓️ Parallel Programming

HPC is about parallelisation, and this section has lots of tutorials and resources on how to do parallel programming in a variety of languages.

• 1 - OpenMP
  • 1.1 - OpenMP & Vectorised Instructions
• 2 - Parallelisation in Python
• 3 - CUDA
  • 3.1 - CUDA Examples
  • 3.2 - CUDA Workshop
  • 3.3 - Hackathon Problem
  • 3.4 - Hackathon Solution(s)
• 4 - MPI
  • 4.1 - MPI Examples

🖵 Graphical Programming

Here are some tutorials on how to make visual programs, either using a proper window (SFML), or making pretty graphics in the terminal using ncurses.

• Graphical Programming 1 - SFML
• Graphical Programming 2 - NCurses

📖 Theory

Sometimes we need some theoretical understanding of the concepts we are trying to learn, and here are some more theoretical/less hands-on discussions.

• Cloud Computing
• Hardware
• Modules and Containerisation

🏃 General/Performance

And here are some general or performance-oriented resources.

• Intro To Python
• Optimising Python Code
• Python-C Interop
• How to use the MSCluster
  • Clusters Generally
• How to use Git