Parallel Programming Workshop
Date: 14/Oct/2013 Time: 10:00 - 18/Oct/2013 Time: 18:00
Barcelona Supercomputing Centre,
within the UPC Campus Nord premises.
Room S208, Vertex Building (green on the map)
S indicates that the room is 2 floors below the entrance level.
Target group: Level: (All courses are designed for specialists with at least 1st cycle degree or similar background experience) INTERMEDIATE: for trainees with some theoretical and practical knowledge; those who finished the beginners course ADVANCED: for trainees able to work independently and requiring guidance for solving complex problems
Cost: There is no registration fee. The attendees would need to cover the expenses for travel, accommodation and meals.
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Course Outline:
Day 1
Session 1 / 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
1. Introduction to parallel architectures, algorithms design and performance parameters
2. Introduction to the MPI programming model
3. Practical: How to compile and run MPI applications
Session 2 / 2:00pm – 5:00 pm
1. Introduction to Paraver: tool to analyze and understand performance
2. Practical: Trace generation and trace analysis
Day 2
Session 1 / 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
1. Tareador: understanding and predicting the potential of task decomposition strategies
2. MPI: Point-to-point communication, collective communication
3. Practical: Simple matrix computations
Session 2 / 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
1. MPI: Blocking and non-blocking communications
2. MPI: Communicators, Topologies
3. Practical: Heat equation example
Day 3
Session 1 / 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
1. Dimemas: Scalability simulation for MPI applications
2. Practical: Scalability simulations using Dimemas
Session 2 / 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
1. xSim: Online scalability simulations for MPI applications
2. Practical: Scalability simulations using xSim
3. Additional MPI features: Error handling, parallel libraries, I/O and fault tolerance
Day 4
Session 1 / 10:00am – 1:00 pm
1. Shared-memory programming models, OpenMP fundamentals
2. Parallel regions and work sharing constructs
3. Synchronization mechanisms in OpenMP
4. Practical: heat diffusion in OpenMP
Session 2 / 2:00pm – 5:00 pm
1. Programming using a hybrid MPI/OpenMP approach
2. Practical: heat diffusion in hybrid MPI/OpenMP
Day 5
Session 1 / 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
1. Tasking in OpenMP 3.0 and 4.0
2. Introduction to the OmpSs programming model
3. Practical: heat equation example and divide-and-conquer
Session 2 / 2:00pm – 5:00 pm
1. Programming using a hybrid MPI/OmpSs approach
2. Practical: heat equation example and divide-and-conquer
END of COURSE