PATC Course: Programming ARM based Prototypes

PRACE Trainings

Date: 13/May/2016 Time: 09:00 - 17:00

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

Cost: There is no registration fee. The attendees would need to cover the expenses for travel, accommodation and meals.

Primary tabs

Day 1 /  9am - 5pm: (3h lectures with 5 min breaks on the hour)

Session 1 (2h):

  1. The Mont-Blanc Project
  2. ARM based machines: Architecture Overview
  3. Discussion

Session 2 (1h + 1h hands-on):

  1. Using ARM based machines (How to get access, Job Execution, Support) (1:30h)
  2. Lunch Break (13:00 to 14:00)

Session 3 (1h + 1h hands-on ):

Developing application (GNU tool chain, examples, etc…),  performance evaluation and power monitoring of ARM based systems for scientific computing

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