Parallel Programming Workshop (Train the Trainer)

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 (also e.g. as flexible online learning modules).

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 also available in the MPI self-study material. 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.

Dr. Tobias Haas, Dr.-Ing. Christoph Niethammer und Lucienne Dettki

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

Skills earned

The skill tree provided by the HPC Certification Forum provides

• K1.3.1.5.1 - MPI-IO
• K3.1 - Level of Parallelization
• SD1.2.1 - Parallel Algorithms
• SD1.2.2 - Shared Memory Systems
• SD1.2.3 - Message Passing Systems 

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 major goal is to learn about MPI and OpenMP, then please register for the regular course.

Registration closes on September 5, 2026.

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

This course is free of charge.

Only participants from institutions belonging to EU and EU-associated countries or part of the EuroCC 2/3 project can take part in this course.

Link to the EU and EU-associated (Horizon Europe) countries and the EuroCC website.

Our course fee includes coffee breaks (in classroom courses only).

Lucas Jordan phone +49 711 685-87206, training(at)hlrs.de

https://www.hlrs.de/training/2026/PAR-TtT and https://www.hlrs.de/training/2026/PAR-HLRS