2018-03-26 PRACE Course: Advanced Topics in High Performance Computing

Date:	Monday, March 26 - Thursday, March 29, 2018, 9:00-17:00
Location:	LRZ Building, University campus Garching, near Munich, Kursraum 2
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. The course is a PRACE Training event. Each day is comprised of approximately 5 hours of lectures and 2 hours of hands-on sessions. Tentative schedule: Day 1 (09:00-17:00) Processor-Specific Optimization (Eitzinger) Day 2 (09:00-17:00) 09:00-12:30 Parallel I/O with MPI IO (Wittmann) 13:30-14:30 SuperMUC Tour (Weinberg) 14:30-17:00 Tuning I/O on LRZ's HPC systems / I/O Profiling: Darshan tool (Mendez) Day 3 (09:00-17:00) 09:00-12:30 Scientific Data Libraries: HDF5 / Scalable I/O library: SIONlib (Mendez) 13:30 - 17:00 Introduction into Intel Xeon Phi (KNL) Programming (Weinberg) Day 4 (09:00-17:00) PGAS programming with coarray Fortran and Unified Parallel C (Bader)
Prerequisites	Good MPI and OpenMP knowledge as presented in the course "Parallel programming of High Performance Systems".
Language:	English
Teachers:	R. Bader, S. Mendez, V. Weinberg (LRZ), J. Eitzinger, M. Wittmann (RRZE)
Registration:	https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/675/registration/register
Hands-on:	The exercises will be done on the teramem & KNL cluster at LRZ.
Contact:	Dr. Volker Weinberg (LRZ)
PRACE-Webpage:	https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/675/overview