MPI for the Next Generation of Supercomputing

05 Dec 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Andrew Lumsdaine

Despite premature rumours of its demise, MPI continues to be the de facto standard for high-performance parallel computing. Nonetheless, supercomputing software and the high-end ecosystem continue to …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5639

Nanoparticle and Colloidal Simulations with Molecular Dynamics

05 Dec 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Steve Plimpton

Modeling nanoparticle or colloidal systems in a molecular dynamics (MD) code requires coarse-graining on several levels to achieve meaningful simulation times for study of rheological and other …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5668

Data Preservation via RapidSVN for NCN students

24 Nov 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Xufeng Wang

This presentation discusses how to use SVN client RapidSVN and how to utilize SVN for data preservation purpose.

https://nanohub.org/resources/5923

OpenMP Tutorial

25 Nov 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Seung-Jai Min

This tutorial consists of three parts. First, we will discuss about how OpenMP is typically used and explain OpenMP programming model. Second, we will describe important OpenMP constructs and data …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5874

Welcoming Remarks

24 Nov 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Alejandro Strachan

Opening remarks for the Purdue School on High Performance and Parallel Computing.

https://nanohub.org/resources/5661

Introduction to Parallel Programming with MPI

24 Nov 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David Seaman

Single-session course illustrating message-passing techniques. The examples include point-to-point and collective communication using blocking and nonblocking transmission. One application …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5932

Software Productivity Tools

24 Nov 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David Seaman

This presentation briefly describes the use of tar(1), make(1), the Portable Batch System (PBS), and two version control systems: CVS and subversion.

https://nanohub.org/resources/5937

Introduction to TotalView

24 Nov 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David Seaman

This single-session course presents an introduction to the use of the TotalView parallel debugger available on Purdue's Linux systems.

https://nanohub.org/resources/5942

Affordable Clean Energy: Challenges and Opportunities

20 Oct 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Hukam C. Mongia

The technical presentation is built around the August 9th 2008 ABC News/Planet Green/Stanford Poll on Environment/Energy in which the majority of the people polled expressed support for the following …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5575

Modern X-ray Scattering Methods for Nanoscale Materials Analysis

15 Oct 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Richard J. Matyi

Since its discovery by von Laue in 1912, X-ray diffraction has become an indispensable tool for structure determinations in the physical and biological sciences. X-rays are characterized by high …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5580

C.V. Raman and the Impact of Raman Effect in Quantum Physics, Condensed Matter, and Materials Science

18 Sep 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Anant K. Ramdas

Raman’s momentous discovery in 1928 that the spectral analysis of the light scattered by matter, illuminated with monochromatic light of frequency ωL, reveals new signatures at (ωL ± ωi) , …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5453

An Introduction to Quantum Computing

12 Sep 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Edward Gerjuoy

Quantum mechanics, as formulated more than 80 years ago by Schrodinger, Heisenberg, Dirac and other greats, is a wholly sufficient foundation for its modern interrelated subfields of quantum …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4778

Physics of Nanoscale Transistors: An Introduction to Electronics from the Bottom Up

10 Sep 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom

Transistor scaling has pushed channel lengths to the nanometer regime, and advances in nanoscience have opened up many new possibilities for devices. To realize these opportunities, our traditional …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5207

ABACUS - Assembly of Basic Applications for Coordinated Understanding of Semiconductors

16 Jul 2008 | Tools | Contributor(s): Xufeng Wang, Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

One-stop-shop for teaching semiconductor device education

https://nanohub.org/resources/abacus

Hierarchy of Simulation Approaches for Charge Transport Simulation

01 Aug 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Omar N Sobh, Umberto Ravaioli

General considerations Model simulation hierarchy Continuum model Particle Transport Monte Carlo model Examples of simulations Umberto Ravaioli - University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignNCN@Purdue …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5175

NCN Nanophotonics: Tutorials

20 Jun 2008 | Series

From among the many tutorial lectures available on the nanoHUB, we list a few that convey new approaches to optics, metamaterials, and photonics.

https://nanohub.org/resources/4750

NCN NEMS: Tutorials

19 Jun 2008 | Series

From among the many tutorial lectures available on the nanoHUB, we list a few that convey new approaches to the development of new kinds of nano-electro-mechanical systems and devices.

https://nanohub.org/resources/4752

NCN Nano-Devices for Medicine and Biology: Tutorials

19 Jun 2008 | Series

From among the many tutorial lectures available on the nanoHUB, we list a few that convey new approaches to the development of new kinds of devices for applications in medicine and biology.

https://nanohub.org/resources/4755

Some Physics for Proteins

03 Jun 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Stephen M. Durbin

https://nanohub.org/resources/3308

Dynamics of Quantum Fluids: Path integral and Semiclassical Methods

21 May 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Nancy Makri

The interplay of many-body nonlinear interactions and quantum mechanical effects such as zero-point motion or identical particle exchange symmetries lead to intriguing phenomena in low-temperature …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4584