Foundational Aspects of ARC4CFD

Time	Class	Questions
45 min	An overview of ARC concepts	What is a CPU and how is it structured? What is HPC and why do I need it? What is a computer cluster and what are its important characteristics?
45 min	Navigating a remote HPC system	How do I connect to the remote machine? What is a login node? What is a compute node? What is the purpose of the job scheduler?
45 min	Allocating resources and running jobs	How do I run a job in interactive mode on the cluster? How do I submit a batch script to SLURM? How do I load my favorite CFD software?
45 min	Introduction to parallel computing	What is parallel computing? What are the advantages and disadvantages of a shared-memory parallelization strategy? What are the advantages and disadvantages of a distributed-memory parallelization strategy? How do I decompose my problem?
60 min	Parallel Poisson solver	What is the 2D Poisson equation? Why is the 2D Poisson equation relevant for CFD applications? What are the important steps towards the numerical solution of the 2D Poisson equation? How do I run a parallel job on the cluster?