Introduction to Hybrid Programming in HPC @ VSC Vienna & LRZ & HLRS

March 24, 2020: Changed from 2-day classroom course to 3-day online course.

This course will be delivered as an ONLINE COURSE for remote participation because of the COVID-19 measures enforced by most European governments.

REGISTRATION is strictly NECESSARY since the details to access the online course will be provided to the registered and accepted attendees only.

Furthermore, accepted participants will be contacted about two weeks in advance and asked to provide some more data for the hands-on labs that will be needed for user account creation on the VSC clusters. At that time there will also be a short PRE-ASSIGNMENT that has to be completed before the course starts.

Most HPC systems are clusters of shared memory nodes. To use such systems efficiently both memory consumption and communication time has to be optimized. Therefore, hybrid programming may combine the distributed memory parallelization on the node interconnect (e.g., with MPI) with the shared memory parallelization inside of each node (e.g., with OpenMP or MPI-3.0 shared memory). This course analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of several parallel programming models on clusters of SMP nodes. Multi-socket-multi-core systems in highly parallel environments are given special consideration. MPI-3.0 has introduced a new shared memory programming interface, which can be combined with inter-node MPI communication. It can be used for direct neighbor accesses similar to OpenMP or for direct halo copies, and enables new hybrid programming models. These models are compared with various hybrid MPI+OpenMP approaches and pure MPI. Numerous case studies and micro-benchmarks demonstrate the performance-related aspects of hybrid programming.

Hands-on sessions are included on both days. Tools for hybrid programming such as thread/process placement support and performance analysis are presented in a "how-to" section. This course provides scientific training in Computational Science and, in addition, the scientific exchange of the participants among themselves. This course is a PRACE training event. It is organized by the VSC Research Center, TU Wien, in cooperation with LRZ, HLRS and RRZE.

Location

Online course
Organizer: ASC Research Center, TU Wien, Austria

Start date

Jun 17, 2020
08:45

End date

Jun 19, 2022
16:00

Language

English

Entry level

Advanced

Course subject areas

Parallel Programming

Topics

MPI

OpenMP

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Agenda & Content

The online version of the course has been extended to three days (as compared to the originally planned two days face-to-face course) to allow for more time and flexibility with doing the hands-on labs remotely.

1st day – 17 June 2020

08:45 Join online
09:00    Welcome
09:05    Motivation
09:15    Introduction
09:45    Programming Models
09:50 - MPI + OpenMP
10:30 Coffee
11:00 - continue: MPI + OpenMP
12:00        Practical (how to compile and start)
13:00   Lunch
14:30        Practical (hybrid through OpenMP parallelization)
16:00 End of first day

2nd day – 18 June 2020

08:45 Join online
09:00 - Overlapping Communication and Computation
09:30    Practical (taskloops)
10:30 Coffee
11:00 - MPI + OpenMP Conclusions
11:15 - MPI + Accelerators
11:45    Tools
12:00    Programming Models (continued)
12:05 - MPI + MPI-3.0 Shared Memory
13:00   Lunch
14:30 Practical (replicated data)
16:00 End of second day

3rd day – 19 June 2020

08:45 Join online
09:00 - MPI Memory Models and Synchronization
09:40 - Pure MPI
10:00 - Recap - MPI Virtual Topologies
10:30 Coffee
11:00 - Topology Optimization
11:30 Practical/Demo (application aware Cartesian topology)
12:30 - Topology Optimization (Wrap up)
12:45 Conclusions
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Finish the hands-on labs, Discussion, Q & A, Feedback
16:00 End of third day (course)

Prerequisites

Basic MPI and OpenMP knowledge as presented, e.g., in the VSC Training Courses on MPI and OpenMP, or in HLRS and ZIH courses, e.g., 2019/PAR or 2020/ZIH.
For the hands-on sessions you should know Unix/Linux and either C/C++ or Fortran.

Content levels

Intermediate: 1 hour
Advanced: 11 hours

Learn more about course curricula and content levels.

Language

The course language is English.

Course material

See http://tiny.cc/MPIX-VSC

Teacher

Dr. habil. Georg Hager (RRZE/HPC, Uni. Erlangen), Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner (HLRS, Uni. Stuttgart), Dr. Claudia Blaas-Schenner and Dr. Irene Reichl (VSC Research Center, TU Wien)

Registration & Further Information

For registration and further information, visit the course page at PRACE:
https://events.prace-ri.eu/e/VSC-2020-HY or VSC (Vienna Scientific Cluster):
http://vsc.ac.at/training/2020/HY-VSC

Registration will start on March 30, 2020.

Deadline

Registration deadline is Tuesday, June 2, 2020.

For the online course we can take a maximum of 40 persons. Registration follows the "first come – first served" principle. Additional registrations will be added to a waiting list.

Fee

This course is a PRACE Training Center (PTC) event. Therefore, the course is free of charge for all participants from EU or from PRACE-member countries.