This is an on-site course at LRZ in Garching near Munich. There will be no possibility to join online remotely via video conference. Participants are expected to bring their own laptops. There are no PCs installed in the course room!
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This on-site course in Garching near Munich, 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 MPI and OpenMP
- OpenMP in Depth
- MPI in Depth
- Performance Pitfalls and Program Optimisation
- Profiling Tools
- Parallel Computer Architecture
Preliminary Agenda
| Day 1 | |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Welcome & Introduction (VW) |
| 10:50 - 12:00 | HPC Introduction, Systems in Germany (GH) |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Hands-On: Logging in, running jobs, working with code examples |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Elements of OpenMP and MPI (VW) |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Coffee Break |
| 14:45 - 17:00 | Hands-On: OpenMP and MPI basics |
| Day 2 | |
| 09:00 - 10:15 | OpenMP in Depth (VW) |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Hands-On: OpenMP |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Hands-On: OpenMP |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Performance pitfalls and program optimisation (GH) |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:00 - 13:45 | Performance pitfalls and program optimisation (GH) |
| 13:45 - 14:30 | MPI in Depth (I) (AG) |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Coffee Break |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | MPI in Depth (II) (AG) |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Hands-On: MPI (and OpenMP) |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Pizza Talk: New ways to fool the masses with performance results on parallel computers (GH) |
| Day 3 | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Profiling Tools (GH + AG) |
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Hands-On: Profiling with perf |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Hands-on: Performance analysis with Intel Trace Analyzer/Collector |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Parallel computer architecture (GH) |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Coffee Break |
| 14:45 - 15:45 | Hands-On |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Wrap-up & adjourn |
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
Dr. Alireza Ghasemi (NHR@FAU), Dr. habil. Georg Hager (NHR@FAU), Dr. Volker 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.
Registration
Please register with your official e-mail address to prove your affiliation.
Withdrawal Policy
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