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Introductory HPC Workshop

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Thu, Nov 3, 2016

3 PM – 5 PM

E52-016 Training Room

50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142, United States

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Details

Learn the basics of High Performance Computing here at Sloan! In particular, we will together log into the cluster computer and do some warm-up exercises.

You will gain more from the course if you already have an Engaging account. You must also have SecureCRT/SecureFX, PuTTY or some other SSH client installed on your laptop before the seminar. (We won't have time to do this during class.) Please go to

http://ist.mit.edu/software-hardware?type=All&platform=All&users=All&field_a_k_a_value=secure&=Search&recommended_only=All

for SecureCRT/SecureFX. Contact STSHelp@mit.edu for help in doing this.

Speakers

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Wesley Harrell

Associate Director, Research Computing

MIT Sloan School of Management

Experience:

* Many years in Research IT at Harvard University, Boston University and the University of Florida
* Designing and managing HPC clusters using resource managers such as SGE, SLURM, HTCondor and Rocks

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Steven Finch

Research Computing Specialist

MIT Sloan School of Management

https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-finch-68662943/

Experience


  • Senior IT specialist, departmental webmaster, classroom instructor, scientific/statistical programmer, technical proofreader & writing coach; Harvard University, 2006 to 2016.

  • Prior work in government research & development, academic publishing, software industry, and public health.

  • Prior courses taught include trigonometry, single & multi-variable calculus, business calculus, linear algebra, introductory statistics, and discrete mathematics with applications to computing.


Education


  • M.S. in Mathematics with Applications to Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1985.

  • B.A. in Mathematics (with Honors), Oberlin College, 1982.


Sample Publications


  • S. R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003.

  • Z.-Q. Bai and S. R. Finch, Precise calculation of Hausdorff dimension of Apollonian gasket, Fractals 26 (2018) 1850050.

  • Z.-Q. Bai and S. R. Finch, Fibonacci and Lucas representations, Fibonacci Quart. 54 (2016) 319-326.

  • S. R. Finch, G. Martin and P. Sebah, Roots of unity and nullity modulo n, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 138 (2010) 2729-2743.

  • S. R. Finch and P. Sebah, Comment on "Volumes spanned by random points in the hypercube", Random Structures Algorithms 35 (2009) 390-392.

  • S. R. Finch and I. Hueter, Random convex hulls: A variance revisited, Adv. Appl. Probab. 36 (2004) 981-986.

  • S. R. Finch and J. E. Wetzel, Lost in a forest, Amer. Math. Monthly 11 (2004) 645-654 [winner of the Ford award].

  • R. M. Ziff, S. R. Finch and V. S. Adamchik, Universality of finite-size corrections to the number of critical percolation clusters, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79 (1997) 3447-3450.


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