PATC Course: Parallel Programming Workshop

PRACE Trainings

Date: 23/Nov/2015 Time: 10:00 - 27/Nov/2015 Time: 17:00

Place: The course will take place in
Barcelona Supercomputing Centre,
within the UPC Campus Nord premises. VS208 in the Vertex building

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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Objectives

The objectives of this course are to understand the fundamental concepts supporting message-passing and shared memory programming models. The course covers the two widely used programming models: MPI for the distributed-memory environments, and OpenMP for the shared-memory architectures. It also presents the main tools developed at BSC to get information and analyze the execution of parallel applications, Paraver and Extrae. Moreover it sets the basic foundations related with task decomposition and parallelization inhibitors, using a tool to analyze potential parallelism and dependences, Tareador.

Additionally, it presents the Parallware compiler, which is able to automatically parallelize a large number of program structures, and provide hints to the programmer with respect to how to change the code to improve parallelization. It deals with debugging alternatives, including the use of GDB and Totalview. The use of OpenMP in conjunction with MPI to better exploit the shared-memory capabilities of current compute nodes in clustered architectures is also considered. Paraver will be used along the course as the tool to understand the behavior and performance of parallelized codes.

The course is taught using formal lectures and practical/programming sessions to reinforce the key concepts and set up the compilation/execution environment.

Requirements

Prerequisites: Fortran, C or C++ programming. All examples in the course will be done in C.
Attendants can bring their own applications and work with them during the course for parallelization and analysis.

Registration for this course is now closed.

All PATC Courses at BSC do not charge fees.
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