When

Dec 31, 2024 from 09:00 AM to 04:30 PM
(Europe/Berlin / UTC100)

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This course will take place as an on-site and in-person event. It is not possible to attend online.

Contents:

An introduction to the parallel programming of supercomputers is given. The focus is on the usage of the Message Passing Interface (MPI), the most often used programming model for systems with distributed memory. Furthermore, OpenMP will be presented, which is often used on shared-memory architectures.

The three day course consist of lectures as well as practical tutorials on implementing the techniques presented in the course.

Topics covered:

Fundamentals of HPC: system architectures, shared and distributed memory concepts.

OpenMP: introduction, parallel constructs, loop and task sharing.

MPI: introduction, point-to-point and collective communication, blocking and non-blocking.

Hands-on: tutorial from serial to parallel program.

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Prerequisites:

Knowledge of either C, C++, Python, or Fortran, basic knowledge of UNIX/Linux and a UNIX standard editor (e.g. vi, emacs)

Target audience:

Supercomputer users

Language:

This course is given in English.

Duration:

3 days

Date:

probably March 2024, 09:00-16:30 each day

Venue:

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Number of Participants:

minimum 5, maximum 26

Instructors:

Ilya Zhukov, Dr. Jolanta Zjupa, Junxian Chew, JSC

Course material of the last course:

Slides, exercises and tutorials