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:
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Beginner's content: |
70% |
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Intermediate content: |
30% |
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Advanced content: |
0% |
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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.
