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Supercomputing Education Moscow State University 1 Contents Supercomputing Consortium of Russian Universities 3 “Supercomputing Education” Project (2010-2012) 4 Series of Books “Supercomputing Education” 7 Summer Supercomputing Academy 8 Department of Supercomputers and Quantum Informatics 9 Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics: Supercomputing Educational Programmes 10 Trainings on Applications Development and Optimization 13 SIGMA: Collective Bank of Tests on Parallel Computing 14 Excursions to the Supercomputing Center 15 2 Supercomputing Consortium of Russian Universities hpc-russia.ru Number of Consortium organizations in cities > 5 organizations 2 - 5 organizations 1 organization Arkhangelsk Petrozavodsk St. Petersburg Kirov Kostroma Perm Tver Izhevsk Nizhny Novgorod Ekaterinburg Tomsk Moscow Vladimir Kazan Krasnoyarsk Kaliningrad Saransk Chelyabinsk Omsk Novosibirsk Minsk Penza Ufa Tambov Samara Irkutsk Belgorod Voronezh Saratov Chisinau Rostov-on-Don 57 organizations Vladivostok The agreement about the formation of the Technologies. On the Consortium’s initiative, Supercomputing Consortium of Russian Uni a number of scientific conferences, AllRussia versities was signed by Rectors of Lomonosov student schools, and workshops were held, Moscow State University, Lobachevsky Nizhny books published, and analytical reports on Su Novgorod State University, Tomsk State Uni percomputers issued. versity and South Ural State University at the The Supercomputing Consortium of Russian session of the Russian Union of Rectors on the Universities initiated and organized a success 23rd of December, 2008. The main objective of ful implementation of the Russian Federation the Consortium is to use the School of Higher Presidential Commission Project on the mod Education’s powerful potential to develop and ernization and technological development of implement Supercomputing Technologies in Russian economy “Supercomputing Education”. Russian education, science and industry. Currently, the Consortium comprises 57 full and associate members, including leading Rus sian universities, the institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences and commercial compa nies, actively working in the Supercomputing 3 “Supercomputing Education” Project (2010-2012) hpc-education.ru Project leader – Rector • Tomsk State University, of Lomonosov Moscow State • South Ural State University, University academician • St.Petersburg State University of IT, Me V. A. Sadovnichy chanics and Optics, • Southern Federal University, • Far Eastern Federal University, • Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, • Members of the Supercomputing Consor tium of Russian Universities. The Russian Federation Presidential Com mission on the modernization and technologi System of Research and cal development of the Russian economy Project Education Centers for “Formation of Highly Qualified Supercomput Supercomputing Technologies ing Technology and Software Specialist Train ing System” is complete. (REC SCT) The strategic project objective is the formation The system of REC SCT forms a structure in of a nationwide highly qualified Supercomput corporating a group of REC in different Russian ing Technology and Software specialist training Federal Districts. REC are formed on the basis system. of structural subdivisions of Schools of Higher The main executives of the project are: Education – the members of the Supercomput ing Consortium of Russian Universities, which • Lomonosov Moscow State University, possess considerable expertise in carrying out • Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod State Uni research work and conducting the SCT educa versity, tional activity. REC SCT in Federal Districts of Russia 4 Body of Knowledge in Academicmethodological Associations of clas sical universities. Supercomputing Technologies The development of the Body of Knowledge in Proposals on Expanding Federal Supercomputing Technologies occupies the cen State Educational Standards tral part in the educational and methodological maintenance for the SCT specialist training, Based on the developed Body of Knowledge in skill development system, and advanced retrain the field of supercomputing technologies pro ing. posals on expanding the Russian third genera These are the competencies every student tion Federal State Educational Standards have must have upon graduating from a correspond been formed on the following specialties for in ing faculty or a course, completing a retraining depth study of supercomputing technologies: program, or training in special groups. It is the • “Fundamental Informatics and Information Body of Knowledge that shows how an educa Technologies”, tional process must be organized and the par ticular subjects upon which it must be based. • “Applied Mathematics and Informatics”, The main aspect of the Body of Knowledge is • “Mathematics”. the description of the subject area “Supercom puters and Parallel Computing” to clearly define Proposals were developed on forming the cur what to train and how to organize the process of ricula and skill development and advanced re training for each targetoriented group of train training programs and in the supercomputing ees. technologies for enlarged groups of specialties The structure of the created Body of Knowl and training directions: edge is consistent with the recommendations of • “Physics and Mathematics”, the international professional communities of • “Informatics and Computational Tech the ACM and IEEE Computer Society. niques”, Supercomputing Technology • “Information Security”. Training Courses Extensive work was performed on the devel opment of the new courses and extensions to existing ones: the materials of 50 courses, cov ering all main parts of the Body of Knowl edge in the area “Supercomputing Technologies” are publicly available on the project site. All train ing courses underwent the academicmeth odological commission expertise and received the approving resolution of the Academicmeth odological Council on Applied mathematics, Informatics and Information technologies of 5 Entry-Level Training of Supercomputing Technologies Implementation of entrylevel specialists training on supercomputing technologies: • 3269 people passed the training, • the training program consisted of not less than 72 study hours, • 60 universities from 54 cities of all Russian Federal Districts were involved. Faculty Staff Retraining Programs During the project fulfillment the programs of skill development and advanced retraining of Target-Oriented Intensive faculty staff have been successfully carried out. Training in Special Education • the training programs included 72 study Groups hours, A very complex part of the project was ful • 453 people from faculty staff passed the re filled: training, • the programs included 72 study hours, • the retraining consisted of 10 programs, • 40 special groups of trainees were formed, • it embraced 50 organizations from 29 Rus sian cities and towns, • 790 trainees successfully passed the ad vanced retraining, • all Russian Federal Districts were presented. • more than 15 training courses, • all Federal Districts of REC SCT system were presented. Internet University on Supercomputing Technologies Within the project “Supercomputing Educa tion”, in 20102012, 731 people from over 100 Russian cities completed the entrylevel train ing program via distant online education. hpcu.ru 6 Series of Books “Supercomputing Education” A complex program on the development and expert examination of educational and methodolog ical literature in Supercomputing Technologies for the Bachelor`s and Master`s Degrees Programs is successfully being implemented. The series “Supercomputing Education”, created under the project, includes monographs, textbooks and training manuals on the main sections of the Body of Knowl edge in Supercomputing Technologies written by the leading Russian and foreign specialists. “Computational Mathematics “Practical Course on Parallel “Supercomputing Modeling in and Algorithm`s Structure” Computing Techniques” Climate System Physics” V.V. Voevodin A.V. Starchenko, E.A. Danilkin, V.N. Lykosov, A.V. Glazunov, ISBN 978-5-211-05933-7 V.I. Laeva, S.A. Prokhanov D.V. Kulyamin, E.V. Mortikov, ISBN 978-5-211-05976-4 V.M. Stepanenko ISBN 978-5-21106341-9 “High-Performance Computa- “Computationally Complex “MPI and OpenMP Parallel tions for Multiprocessor Tasks of Number Theory” Programming Technologies” Multi-Core Systems” E.A. Grechnikov, S.V. Michailov, A.S. Antonov V.P. Gergel Y.V. Nesterenko, I.A. Popovyan ISBN 978-5-211-06343-3 ISBN 978-5-211-05937-5 ISBN 978-5-211-06342-6 “Parallel Programming Tech- “New Computational Fluid “Principles of Parallel Pro- nologies for New Architecture Dynamics Algorithms for gramming” Processors” Multiprocessor Computers” C.Lin, L.Snyder A.V. Linev, D.K. Bogolepov, V.M. Goloviznin, M.A. Zaitsev, ISBN 978-5-211-06427-0 S.I. Bastrakov S.A.Karabasov, I.A. Korotkin ISBN 978-5-211-05962-7 ISBN 978-5-211-06344-0 And others... “Parallel Programming Tools in “Parallel Computing on GPU: From 10 to 50 copies of the Shared-Memory Systems” Architecture and Program K.V. Kornyakov, V.D. Kustikova, Models” books in the series “Supercom I.B. Meyerov, ISBN 978-5-211 06340-2 A.A. Sydnev,A.V. Sysoev, puting Education” are delivered A.V. Shishkov ISBN 978-5-211-05931-3 to 43 Russian universities free of charge. In total, 31500 books of this series are conveyed to Russian universities during the project. 7 Summer Supercomputing Academy academy.hpc-russia.ru/en