2022-03-08 Parallel Programming of High Performance Systems (hppb1w21)

Registration

Please register via https://indico.scc.kit.edu/event/2608/

with your official e-mail address to prove your affiliation. Following your successful registration, you will receive further information approx. 1-2 weeks before the course.

Contents

This online course, a collaboration of Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU) and Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ), is targeted at students and scientists with interest in programming modern HPC hardware, specifically the large-scale parallel computing systems available at the Gauss Centers and in the NHR Alliance.. 

Topics covered include:

• HPC Intro, Systems in Germany
• Elements of MPI and OpenMP
• OpenMP in Depth
• MPI in Depth
• Basic Computer Architecture: Shared Memory
• Basic computer architecture: Distributed Memory
• Profiling Tools
• Performance Pitfalls

Preliminary Agenda (all Times in CET)

Prerequisites

Course participants should have a working UNIX/Linux knowledge (login with secure shell, shell commands, compilers, vi or emacs editors). Good working knowledge of at least one of the standard HPC languages: Fortran 95, C or C++ is also required

Hands-On

Exercises will be done on a Linux Cluster at NHR@FAU.

Content Level

The content level of the course is broken down as:

Language

English

Lecturers

G. Hager (NHR@FAU), A. Afzal (NHR@FAU), M. Wittmann (NHR@FAU), V. Weinberg (LRZ)

Prices and Eligibility

The course is open and free of charge for people from academia from the Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU) and Associated/Other Countries to the Horizon 2020 programme.

Withdrawal Policy

Please only register for the course if you are really going to attend. No-shows will be blacklisted and excluded from future events. If you want to withdraw your registration, please send e-mail to georg.hager@fau.de.