Feb 20 – 22, 2024
FAU Computer Science Building
Europe/Berlin timezone

This on-site course, a collaboration of Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU) and Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ), is targeted at students and scientists with interest in programming modern HPC clusters from the research group to the computing center level.

Topics covered include:

  • HPC Introduction
  • HPC Systems in Germany
  • Elements of MPI and OpenMP
  • OpenMP in Depth
  • MPI in Depth
  • Basic Computer Architecture: Shared Memory
  • Basic computer architecture: Distributed Memory
  • Basic Profiling Tools
  • Performance Pitfalls

See the timetable for details.

Prerequisites

Course participants should have a working UNIX/Linux knowledge (login with secure shell, shell commands, compilers, vi or emacs editors). Good working knowledge of at least one of the standard HPC languages: Fortran 95, C or C++ is also required

Hands-On

Exercises will be conducted on a Linux Cluster at NHR@FAU in Erlangen.

Content Level

The content level of the course is broken down as:

Beginner's content:

70%

Intermediate content:

30%

Advanced content:

0%

Community-targeted content:

0%

Language

English

Lecturers

G. Hager (NHR@FAU), A. Afzal (NHR@FAU), M. Wittmann (NHR@FAU), V. Weinberg (LRZ)

Prices and Eligibility

The course is open and free of charge for people from academia from the Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU) and Associated/Other Countries to the Horizon 2020 programme.

Withdrawal Policy

Please only register for the course if you are really going to attend. No-shows will be blacklisted and excluded from future events. If you want to withdraw your registration, please send e-mail to georg.hager@fau.de.

Starts
Ends
Europe/Berlin
FAU Computer Science Building
02.135
Martensstr. 3 91058 Erlangen

Course material (slides, exercises, example code) is available at http://tiny.cc/PPHPS

Registration
Registration for this event is currently open.