2015-04-07 PRACE PATC Course: Advanced Topics in High Performance Computing (HPAR2W14)

Date:Tuesday, April 7 - Friday, April 10, 2015, 9:00-18:00
Location:LRZ Building, University campus Garching, near Munich
Contents:In this add-on course to the parallel programming course special topics are treated in more depth, in particular performance analysis, I/O and PGAS concepts. It is provided in collaboration of Erlangen Regional Computing Centre (RRZE) and LRZ within KONWIHR.

Each day is comprised of approximately 5 hours of lectures and 2 hours of hands-on sessions.

Day 1

  • Processor-Specific Optimization (Treibig)

Day 2

  • Parallel I/O with MPI IO (Wittmann)
  • Introduction into Intel Xeon Phi Programming (Weinberg)

Day 3

  • Tuning I/O on LRZ's HPC systems (Mendez)
  • Portability of I/O: NetCDF and PnetCDF (Mendez)
  • Guided SuperMUC Tour (Weinberg)
  • Portability of I/O: HDF5 (Mendez)
  • SIONlib: Scalable I/O library (Mendez)

Day 4

  • PGAS programming with coarray Fortran and Unified Parallel C (Bader)
  • PGAS hands on session
PrerequisitesGood MPI and OpenMP knowledge as presented in the course "Parallel programming of High Performance Systems" (see above).
Language:English
Teachers:R. Bader, S. Mendez, V. Weinberg (LRZ), J. Treibig, M. Wittmann (RRZE)
Registration:Will soon be available via the LRZ registration form (Please choose course HPAR2W14)
PATC-Webpage:http://events.prace-ri.eu/e/LRZ-2015-HPAR2W14/