Parallel Programming Workshop (Train the Trainer)

Photo of scientists participating in a training course in HLRS's Ruehle Saal

The Train the Trainer Program is provided in conjunction with the regular course Parallel Programming Workshop (MPI, OpenMP and Advanced Topics). Whereas the regular course teaches parallel programming, this program is designed to train future trainers in parallel programming.

Too few people can offer parallel programming courses at the level needed by scientists and PhD students who want to learn how to parallelize a sequential application or to improve parallel applications. Within Europe, only a few HPC centres provide such courses at European or national level. We would like to support additional trainers and centres to also deliver such courses throughout Europe or at least in their own countries.

This course is a joint training event of HLRS and EuroCC@GCS, the German National Competence Centres for High-Performance Computing.

Location

HLRS, University of Stuttgart
Nobelstraße 19
70569 Stuttgart, Germany
Room 0.439 / Rühle Saal
Location and nearby accommodations

Start date

Oct 14, 2024
08:15

End date

Oct 18, 2024
17:30

Language

English

Entry level

Advanced

Course subject areas

Parallel Programming

Topics

MPI

OpenMP

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Prerequisites

You are familiar with parallel programming with MPI and OpenMP on an advanced level and skilled in both programming languages C and Fortran (or Python for the MPI part).

Your goal: You want to provide MPI and OpenMP courses for other scientists and PhD students in your country, i.e., you would like to at least provide the first three days of the regular course as a training block-course.

Your centre (see "Background" here below) is affiliated to one National Competence Centre (NCC) of EuroCC.

Background:

(a) Your centre supports you to provide such PhD courses at your centre and has access to an HPC resource that allows MPI and OpenMP programming in C and Fortran (or Python for the MPI part). To this purpose, a centre may send two or three TtT participants together to this course. Additionally, you may have already participated as a regular participant in one of our other courses, so that you are already familiar with all the exercises.

Or (b), you as a future trainer would like to co-operate with a centre with the necessary course infrastructure in your country.

What does this Train the Trainer Program provide?

  • We provide you with all necessary teaching material on a personal basis, i.e., with the copyright to use it and to provide pdf or paper copies to the students in your PhD courses.
  • We provide all exercise material.
  • You will listen the lectures, so that you can get familiar with the training material.
  • During the exercises, you will help the regular students to correct their errors. The regular students are advised to request help if they are stuck for more than a minute. You will be trained to detect their problems as fast as possible (typically in less than a minute) and to provide the students with the needed help.
  • For this, and if possible, we will pair you with other TtT participants, so that you can help at a maximum of problems.
  • When the participants start with the exercise, all TtT participants will receive a short (5 minutes) briefing on important aspects and usual problems with this exercise.
  • Optionally, we can also meet during the few lectures that are not part of the TtT program (e.g., those by external lecturers), or in the morning 8:45-9:00 every day.

The Train the Trainer Program includes the curriculum from Monday until Friday according to the course agenda. The Train the Trainer Program starts on Monday with a short introductory meeting at 8:15 am. On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday we will have a short review/discussion meeting after the course. On Thursday evening we will have an additional meeting and dinner for all participants of this TtT program. On Friday, we will wrap up with a short review at the end (17:00-17:30).

Additional prerequisites:

  • You should be present the whole time during the course week.
  • During the course week, you should be prepared to be totally offline from your regular business during the course hours. During the lectures, you should learn details about the slide content and how to teach it. During the exercises, you support the participants. 
  • Please expect the TtT course to finish 30-60 minutes later than the official schedule of the regular course.
  • You are prepared to present one or two introductions to our MPI course chapters, i.e. from the beginning to before the first exercise. The slides are available in the MPI self-study material. You can choose between chapters 3 pt-to-pt (9 slides, ~15 Minutes), 8-1 sub-comms (9 slides, ~16 Minutes), 9-1 topologies (11 slides, ~20 Minutes), 12-1 datatypes (7 slides, ~14 Minutes), and 13-1 I/O (16 slides, ~25 Minutes). Please indicate in your application letter which two chapters you prefer. For recordings, please visit Self-Study Materials and look for the latest MPI course.
  • If you are accepted to the TtT course, you will receive four weeks before the course an updated pdf of the MPI and OpenMP course slides. The exercises are available here. It is required that you prepare the MPI and OpenMP exercises before the course starts, so that you can assist the participants during the exercises.

Instructors

Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner

Learning outcomes

This course provides scientific training in Computational Science for the future trainers.

HLRS concept for on-site courses

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

  • a social event on the evening of the first course day,
  • offering common coffee and lunch breaks and
  • working together in groups of two during the exercises.

Please be informed that recomendations according to the Occupational Safety and Health Measures of the University of Stuttgart at the time of event and additional rules might be applied. 

Registration information

Register via the button at the top of this page and complete the "required application letter" as explained below.

After registration:

  • You will receive an automated response with your registration data.
  • You forward this data to ttt-applications(at)hlrs.de together with a required application letter (about one page) that gives us information about your background (e.g., your expertise in using MPI and OpenMP), why you apply for this training and your future plans how to use our material (or your material) in your own future courses at your NCC of EuroCC.
  • Without this required application letter, your registration will be canceled.
  • You will receive a personal answer whether your application to this Train the Trainer Program has been accepted.
  • If your application has been accepted, you will receive an invoice for the course fee.
  • If your major goal is to learn about MPI and OpenMP, then please register for the regular course.

Registration closes on September 23, 2024 (extended registration phase).

Fees

The following applies only to accepted participants according to the Prerequisites above.

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.

Contact

Khatuna Kakhiani phone 0711 685 65796, khatuna.kakhiani(at)hlrs.de

Maksym Deliyergiyev phone 0711 685 87261, maksym.deliyergiyev(at)hlrs.de

HLRS Training Collaborations in HPC

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.

This course is provided within the framework of EuroCC2 and the bwHPC training program.

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See the training overview and the Supercomputing Academy pages.

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