2020 Workshops

Simulation and Data Needs to Support Disaster Recovery Planning

January 30-31, 2020

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Apply to participate by December 15, 2019

2019 Workshops

Advanced Simulation for Natural Hazards Mitigation & Grand Challenges for Multi-Hazards Engineering

In collaboration with NHERI Lehigh and UCSD Experimental Facility sites

September 23-24, 2019 at Lehigh University

Agenda and Presentations

December 16-17, 2019 at UC San Diego

Registration is open!

Tool Training

June 13-14, 2019

AGENDA

• Day 1:
  • Introduction to the SimCenter
  • Intro and Demo EE-UQ Tool - Frank McKenna
  • Hands-on Exercise EE-UQ Tool (local and HPD)
  • Intro and Demo uqFEM Tool - Frank McKenna
  • Hands-on Excercise uqFEM-UQ Tool (local and HPD)
• Day 2:
  • Engaging and Collaborating with the SimCenter
  • SimCenter Educational Tools
  • Intro and Demo of the PBE Tool - Adam Zsarnoczay
  • Hands-on Exercise PBE Tool (local and HPC)
  • Regional Earthquake Workflow Intro & Demo
  • Tool Feedback & Observations
  • Workshop Feedback

Programming Bootcamp

July 22-26, 2019

AGENDA

Day 1: Programming in C

Day 2: Abstraction & C++

Day 3: Python

Day 4: Data Gathering and AI

Day 5: rWHALE

2018 Workshops

User Workshop

May 18, 2018

AGENDA

Presentation Slides

• Overview of the SimCenter (Sanjay Govindjee)
• Research Tools (Frank McKenna and Ahsan Kareem)
• Educational Tools (Laura Lowes)
• PBE Worklfow Testbeds (Frank McKenna and Greg Deierlein)
• Breakout Sessions
  • AI / Knowledge Bases (Greg Deierlein and Frank McKenna)
  • Computational FEM Tools ( Sanjay Govindjee)
  • Computational CFD: Wind, Storm Surge, and Tsunami Tools
  • Regional PBE Testbeds (Greg Deierlein and Laura Lowes)
  • UQFEM_Govindjee_Taflanidis.pdf (Sanjay Govindjee and Alex Taflanidis)
• NHERI Vision and Goals (Joy Pauschke)
• ECO Engagement of Research and Educational Tools (Laura Lowes)
• Future Tool Development and Deployment Plans (Greg Deierlein)

Programming Bootcamp

July 30 - Aug 3, 2018

AGENDA

• Day 1: Programming in C
  • Introductions
  • VM, Linux, and Git
  • An Introduction to Programming
  • The C Programming Language
  • Exercises
• Day 2: Debugging and Parallel Programming
  • Debugging
  • PI / Exercises #3
  • Parallel Machines
  • Parallel Programming with MPI
  • Exercise
  • Parallel Programming with OpenMP
  • Exercise
  • Load Balancing
• Day 3: Abstraction, Struct & C++
  • Git – Updating your repos
  • Abstraction
  • Abstraction in C with struct and pointers
  • Exercise
  • Programming in C++
  • Exercise with Frank
• Day 4: User Interface Design & Qt
  • GUI Design Fundamentals
  • the Qt Framework
    • Common Data Types / classes
    • Building the UI
    • Layout Management
    • Signals and Slots
    • Model - Vew - Controller Concepts
    • Helper Widgets
  • Quite a few Exercise Sessions
• Day 5: SimCenter and Cloud Computing
  • SimCenter overview
  • Exercise with uqFEM
  • DesignSafe Website – Interactive
  • Agave Interaction