PRACE Course: Advanced Topics in High Performance Computing

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Date:

 Monday, March 26 - Thursday, March 29, 2018, 9:00-17:00
Location: LRZ Building, University campus Garching, near Munich, Kursraum 2
Contents:

In this add-on course to the parallel programming course special topics are treated in more depth, in particular performance analysis, I/O and PGAS concepts. It is provided in collaboration of Erlangen Regional Computing Centre (RRZE) and LRZ within KONWIHR.

The course is a PRACE Training event.

Each day is comprised of approximately 5 hours of lectures and 2 hours of hands-on sessions.

Tentative schedule:

Day 1 (09:00-17:00)

  • Processor-Specific Optimization (Eitzinger)

Day 2 (09:00-17:00)

  • 09:00-12:30 Parallel I/O with MPI IO (Wittmann)
  • 13:30-14:30 SuperMUC Tour (Weinberg)
  • 14:30-17:00 Tuning I/O on LRZ's HPC systems / I/O Profiling: Darshan tool (Mendez)

Day 3 (09:00-17:00)

  • 09:00-12:30 Scientific Data Libraries: HDF5 / Scalable I/O library: SIONlib (Mendez)
  • 13:30 - 17:00 Introduction into Intel Xeon Phi (KNL) Programming (Weinberg)

Day 4 (09:00-17:00)

  • PGAS programming with coarray Fortran and Unified Parallel C (Bader)
Prerequisites Good MPI and OpenMP knowledge as presented in the course "Parallel programming of High Performance Systems".
Language: English
Teachers: R. Bader, S. Mendez, V. Weinberg (LRZ), J. Eitzinger, M. Wittmann (RRZE)
Registration: https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/675/registration/register
Hands-on: The exercises will be done on the teramem & KNL cluster at LRZ.
Contact: Dr. Volker Weinberg (LRZ)
PRACE-Webpage: https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/675/overview