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
- 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
Preliminary Agenda
| Day 1 | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Welcome & Introduction (VW) |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | HPC Introduction, Systems in Germany (GH) |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Hands-On: Logging in, working with code examples |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | Lunch Break |
| 13:15 - 15:00 | Elements of OpenMP and MPI (VW) |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Coffee Break |
| 15:15 - 16:15 | Hands-On: OpenMP and MPI basics |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | Basic Computer Architecture: Shared Memory (GH) |
| Day 2 | |
| 09:00 - 10:45 | OpenMP in Depth (tbd.) |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Hands-On: OpenMP |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:00 - 13:45 | Basic Computer Architecture: Distributed Memory (GH) |
| 13:45 - 14:30 | MPI in Depth (I) (AG) |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Break |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | MPI in Depth (II) (AG) |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Hands-On: MPI (and OpenMP) |
| Day 3 | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Profiling Tools (tbd.) |
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Hand-On: Profiling with gprof |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Hands-on: Profiling with ITAC |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Benchmarking and data presentation (GH) |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Performance pitfalls and how to spot them (GH) |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Hands-On |
| 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
G. Hager (NHR@FAU), A. Ghasemi (NHR@FAU), N.N. (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.
Registration
Please register with your official e-mail address to prove your affiliation.
Withdrawal Policy
See Withdrawal
Legal Notices
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