About the HPC Summer Institute
The HPC Summer Institute is being organized by the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology at Rice University in an effort to address a growing need for training and education in high performance computing to industry. While the main driver for the summer institute has been the oil and gas industry, the curriculum is broadly applicable to any field engaged in scientific computing. This institute offers representatives from industry, with a wide array of backgrounds, opportunities to be trained in high performance computing and scientific programming.
Leading HPC faculty members from Rice University will be instructors for the summer institute. The curriculum will cover topics ranging from MPI, OpenMP, Pthreads, Performance analysis and accelerated computing using GPGPU. Hands on laboratories sessions supported by the instructor(s) and lab assistants will be offered each day allowing participants to practice what is being tough in the morning class sessions.
About the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology
The Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology (K2I), at Rice University, is a research-centric institute dedicated to the advancement of applied interdisciplinary research in the areas of computation and information technology. K2I’s heritage and primary strengths are in the areas of high-performance computing and computational science and engineering. K2I’s goals are to support, foster, and develop a strong community of research and education across a wide area of computing technologies, computational engineering, and information processing.
Our goals are to be a catalyst for research collaboration across school, department, center, and laboratory boundaries and to encourage and develop close partnerships with industry, government, and other universities. Today, K2I is the virtual “home” of about 130 Rice faculty members and senior researchers drawn from across the university. From its roots in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computational and Applied Mathematics, and Statistics, it has grown to encompass faculty from 17 departments at Rice.
The institute’s power lies in its ability to look beyond individual faculty members and departments and support the creation of teams that can successfully leverage our key research strengths. Through interaction with industry and frequent visits to funding agencies, we encourage and support the team building necessary to match faculty expertise with opportunities. The institute serves as the catalyst for developing these opportunities and moving them forward.
About the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University
Engineering has been a part of Rice's curriculum since the university first opened as The Rice Institute in 1912. In those early days Rice offered courses in chemical, civil, mechanical and electrical engineering. Over the years, the engineering program grew, and in 1975 the George R. Brown School of Engineering was established. Today the school is comprised of eight academic departments and includes fourteen research institutes and centers. More than one fourth of Rice students are engineering majors.
Among the more than 100 engineering faculty are seven members of the National Academy of Engineering. Virtually all undergraduate courses in engineering are taught by Ph.D. faculty. With a small student-to-faculty ratio, students in both undergraduate and graduate programs not only have easy access to professors in the classroom, but work closely with them on research projects. Departments, institutes and centers, within the school of engineering, take advantage of Houston's role as a center for the energy industry, medical research, space exploration, and the city's rapidly growing high-technology sector. Several departments have active industrial affiliates programs, and many research projects are undertaken with local companies. Students benefit from these relationships through collaborative research projects, summer internships, and making contacts for employment before graduation.
