PRACE Course: Advanced Topics in High Performance Computing

This course was annually offered in collaboration of Erlangen Regional Computing Centre (RRZE) and LRZ within KONWIHR as a PRACE course until 2019. It built up on the course "Parallel Programming of High Performance Systems". Part of the topics covered are now presented in context of other course offers by LRZ.

Tentative schedule:

Day 1 (09:00-17:00)

• Processor-Specific Optimization

Day 2 (09:00-17:00)

• 09:00-12:30 Parallel I/O with MPI IO
• 13:30-17:00 Tuning I/O on LRZ's HPC systems / I/O Profiling: Darshan tool

Day 3 (09:00-17:00)

• 09:00-12:30 Scientific Data Libraries: HDF5 / Scalable I/O library: SIONlib
• 13:30-15:30 Special Public Lecture by Intel: see https://doku.lrz.de/display/PUBLIC/PRACE+Public+Lectures
  
• 15:30-17:00 SuperMUC Tour

Day 4 (09:00-17:00)

• PGAS programming with coarray Fortran and Unified Parallel C

Slides (2018/2019)