2026-02-24 Parallel Programming of High Performance Systems (register via FAU) (hppb1w25)

Registration

Please register via  https://indico.ecap.work/event/189/ with your official e-mail address to prove your affiliation.

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, Systems in Germany
• Elements of OpenMP
• Elements of MPI
• Performance Pitfalls and Program Optimisation
• Profiling Tools
• OpenMP for GPU Programming
• Outlook to Hybrid Parallel Programming
• Working with HPC Clusters in Practice

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:

Language

English

Lecturers

Dr. Alireza Ghasemi, Dr. habil. Georg Hager,  Dr. Sebastian Kuckuk (all NHR@FAU) and Dr. Volker Weinberg (LRZ)

Prices and Eligibility

The course is open and free of charge for people from academia affiliated with an institution in the Member States of the European Union or Associated/Other Countries to the Horizon 2020 programme.

Participants from industry are not eligible to take part in this course.

Withdrawal Policy

Please only register if you are committed to attending the course. No-shows will be blacklisted and excluded from future events.

If you need to withdraw your registration, please either cancel it directly through the registration system or send an email to sebastian.kuckuk@fau.de.

Waiting List

If the course reaches its maximum capacity, you can request to join the wait list by sending an email to sebastian.kuckuk@fau.de. Please include your name and university affiliation in the message.

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