Jan 23, 2024
08:45
Jan 25, 2024
16:30
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Course subject areasProgramming Languages for Scientific Computing
TopicsMPI
MPI+OpenMP
OpenMP
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Claudia Blaas-Schenner (VSC Research Center, TU Wien and EuroCC-Austria),
Georg Hager (NHR@FAU, Uni. Erlangen),
Rolf Rabenseifner (HLRS, Uni. Stuttgart)
An introduction will be given by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael M. Resch, director of the HLRS, and by HPE about the next HLRS systems Hunter and Herder on the first day.
The presentation times listed in the agenda are tentative.
1st day – 23 January 2024
08:45 Join in
09:00 Welcome
09:03 Exascale Supercomputing is coming to Stuttgart: Hunter and Herder
Prof. Michael Resch (Director, HLRS)
09:30 Hunter's hardware architecture and its programming models
Dr. Christian Simmendinger (HPE) and Igor Pasichnyk (AMD)
10:15 Break
10:30 Introduction to the general MPI+X course with exercises on existing Hawk cluster
11:15 Programming Models
11:20 - MPI + OpenMP
11:50 Practical (how to compile and start)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 - continue: MPI + OpenMP
14:45 Break
15:00 - continue: MPI + OpenMP
15:45 Practical (how to do pinning)
16:15 Q & A
16:30 End of first day
2nd day – 24 January 2024
08:45 Join in
09:00 - continue: MPI + OpenMP
09:00 Practical (hybrid through OpenMP parallelization)
10:30 Break
10:45 - Overlapping Communication and Computation
11:15 Practical (taskloops)
12:15 - MPI + OpenMP Conclusions
12:30 Lunch
14:00 - MPI + Accelerators
15:00 Break
15:15 - MPI + Accelerators (continued)
16:15 Q & A
16:30 End of second day
3rd day – 25 January 2024
08:45 Join in
09:00 Programming Models (continued)
09:05 - MPI + MPI-3.0 Shared Memory
10:00 Break
10:15 - MPI Memory Models and Synchronization
11:00 Break
11:15 - Pure MPI
11:35 - Recap - MPI Virtual Topologies
12:05 - Topology Optimization
12:30 Lunch
14:00 - Topology Optimization, continued
14:10 Conclusions
14:25 Practical (replicated data)
15:45 Q & A, Feedback
16:00 Q & A
16:30 End of third day (course)
A link to the course material (slides and exercises) will be available at course start
Register via the button at the top of this page.
Registration closes on Tuesday 9 January, 2024 (extended deadline).
Late registrations after the deadline are still possible according to the course capacity, possibly with reduced quality of the handout.
Students without Master's degree or equivalent. Participants from EU or EuroCC countries only: 0 EUR
PhD students or employees at a German university or public research institute: 0 EUR
PhD students or employees at a university or public research institute in an EU or EuroCC country other than Germany: 0 EUR.
Other participants, e.g., from industry, other public service providers, or government. Participants from EU or EuroCC countries only: 0 EUR
Our course fee includes coffee breaks (in classroom courses only).
For lists of EU and EuroCC countries have a look at the Horizon Europe and EuroCC website.
Only participants from institutions belonging to these countries can take part in this course.
Maksym Deliyergiyev phone 0711 685 87261, maksym.deliyergiyev(at)hlrs.de
HLRS is part of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), together with JSC in Jülich and LRZ in Garching near Munich. EuroCC@GCS is the German National Competence Centre (NCC) for High-Performance Computing. HLRS is also a member of the Baden-Württemberg initiative bwHPC. Since 2025, HLRS coordinates HammerHAI.
This course is provided within the framework of EuroCC2 and the bwHPC training program.
This is a joint training event of EuroCC@GCS and EuroCC-Austria.
Within the scope of the EuroCC2 project this training is offered free of charge. By participating in a training free of charge, companies receive state-aid corresponding to the regular market-prices listed in the service portfolio. Please note state-aid regulations in Germany.
EuroCC 2 and EuroCC4SEE have received funding from the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 101101903 and No 101191697. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Digital Europe Programme and Germany, Bulgaria, Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Norway, Türkiye, Republic of North Macedonia, Iceland, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Besides the content of the training itself, an important aspect of this event is the scientific exchange among the participants. We try to facilitate such communication by
See the training overview and the Supercomputing Academy pages.
See also information about the HLRS training department and staff.
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