2024-02-20 Parallel Programming of High Performance Systems (hppb1w23)

CourseParallel Programming of High Performance Systems
Numberhppb1w23
Available places50
Date20.02.2024 – 22.02.2024
PriceEUR 0.00
LocationFAU Computer Science Building
Martensstr. 3
91058 Erlangen
Room02.135
Registration deadline13.02.2024 23:55
E-maileducation@lrz.de


This is an on-site in-person course at NHR@FAU in Erlangen. There will be no possibility to join online remotely via video conference. You must travel to Erlangen to participate. We cannot provide any travel grants.

Registration

Please register via Indico @ KIT 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 on-site course in Erlangen, 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 clusters from the research group to the computing center level.

Topics covered include:

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

See the timetable for details.

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 conducted on a Linux Cluster at NHR@FAU in Erlangen.

Content Level

The content level of the course is broken down as:

Beginner's content:

70%

Intermediate content:

30%

Advanced content:

0%

Community-targeted content:

0%

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 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 at NHR@FAU. If you want to withdraw your registration, please send e-mail to georg.hager@fau.de.

Legal Notices

Registration is done via Indico hosted by The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) .

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No.DateTimeLeaderLocationRoomDescription
120.02.202410:30 – 17:00Volker Weinberg
Georg Hager
FAU Computer Science Building02.135Day 1
221.02.202409:00 – 17:00Volker Weinberg
Georg Hager
FAU Computer Science Building02.135Day 2
322.02.202409:00 – 16:00Volker Weinberg
Georg Hager
FAU Computer Science Building02.135Day 3