Course Description
Computer User Training Course 25 February - 12 March 2002

COM 1: Introduction for new users/MARS (25 February - 1 March 2002)

This 5-day module will start Monday, 25 February 2002, at 9.00 and finish Friday, 1 March 2002 at 13.00.

Topics:

• System and hardware overview
• Submitting batch jobs
• Access from Member States
• Data storage/retrieval facilities
• Running Fortran jobs
• Libraries
• MARS (Meteorological Archival and Retrieval System)
  
  • overview
  • description of data available
  • practical examples
• Decoding/encoding routines
• Interpolation of data
  

COM 2: MAGICS (4 - 5 March 2002)

This 2-day module will start Monday, 4 March 2002, at 9.00, and finish Tuesday, 4 March 2002, at 17.00.

Topics:

• MAGICS subroutine library
• MAGICS programming
  

COM 3: Metview (6 - 8 March 2002)

This 3-day module will start Wednesday, 6 March 2002, at 9.00, and finish Friday, 8 March 2002 at 17.00.

Topics:

• Metview
• Metview macros
  

COM 4: SMS/XCdp (11 - 12 March 2002)

This 2-day module will start Monday, 11 March 2002, at 9.00, and finish Tuesday, 12 March 2002, at 17.00.

Topics:

• SMS
• XCdp
  

COM 5: Use of ECMWF supercomputing resources

An early session will be held 24-28 June 2002, aimed at users who wish to gain early access to the Centre's IBM resources. The first full session of training module COM 5 will be held 28 October - 1 November 2002.

Topics:

• Hardware architecture review
• File system overview
• Programming environment
• Performance analysis tools
• Batch system - LoadLeveler
• Optimisation
• OpenMP introduction