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PRACE Summer School: Taking the Most Out of Supercomputers
In the PRACE Summer School the participants will learn advanced programming skills, which are necessary for getting the most out of the largest ("Tier-0") supercomputers.
The school will cover the following topics, addressed with lectures and related hands-on exercise ("lab") sessions.
- William Gropp (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): Advanced features of the message-passing interface (4 h lectures, 3 h labs)
- Rolf Rabenseifner (HLRS) & Pekka Manninen (CSC): Hybrid message passing + shared memory programming (3 h lectures + 1 h lab)
- Sebastian von Alfthan (FMI) & Sami Ilvonen (CSC): Using GPGPUs in high-performance systems - CUDA+MPI programming (3 h lectures, 2 h labs)
- Brian Wylie (Forschungszentrum Jülich): Performance analysis tools for massively parallel applications (2 h lectures, 1 h lab)
- Jussi Enkovaara (CSC): Using Python in high-performance computing (1 h lecture)
- Jan Westerholm (Åbo Akademi): Low-level (assembler) serial code optimization (1 h lecture, 1 h lab)
In addition to these, four scientific case studies concerning using the top-end HPC systems to solve the most challenging problems will be presented by European top researchers:
- Lennart Johnsson (KTH and University of Houston): Towards exascales
- Erik Lindahl (KTH): Molecular simulation - paths to exascale
- Kai Nordlund (University of Helsinki): Scaling a molecular dynamics code to simulate billions of atoms on one hundred thousand processors
- Kari Rummukainen (University of Helsinki): "New physics" with supercomputers
The exercises will be carried out on a brand new Cray XE6 system in PDC, Sweden as well as on CSC's Cray XT4/XT5 system Louhi.
The attendees are encouraged to bring a poster on some scientific application of large-scale HPC or on HPC methodology development.
Prerequisites
Intermediate skills and experience in parallel programming, e.g. skills equivalent to those addressed in the CSC Summer School.
Program
| Mon Aug 29 |
Tue Aug 30 |
Wed Aug 31 |
Thu Sep 1 |
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| 9.00-9.45 | Rummukainen keynote |
CUDA Lec I | Tools Lec I | |
| 9.45-10.30 | Advanced MPI Lec I | CUDA Lec II | Tools Lec II | |
| 10.30-10.45 | Opening | Coffee break |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
| 10.45-11.45 | Johnsson Keynote |
Advanced MPI Lec II |
Lindahl Keynote | Tools/optimization Lab |
| 11.45-12.45 | Lunch break |
Lunch break |
Lunch break |
Lunch break |
| 12.45-13.30 | Hybrid Programming Lec I | Advanced MPI Lab I | CUDA Lec III | Nordlund Keynote |
| 13.30-14.15 | Hybrid Programming Lec II | Advanced MPI Lab II | CUDA Lab I | Keynote cont'd + closing |
| 14.15-14.30 | Coffee break |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
|
| 14.30-15.15 | Hybrid Programming Lec III | Advanced MPI Lec III | CUDA Lab II | |
| 15.15-16.00 | Hybrid Programming Lab |
Advanced MPI Lec IV |
Low-level Code Optimization |
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| 16.00-16.15 | Break | Break | Free | |
| 16.15-17.00 | Python in HPC |
Advanced MPI Lab III |
Free | |
| 17.00- | Welcoming drinks |
Poster session |
Dinner |
Materials
- Agenda and practicalities
- Instructions on Lindgren system
- Hybrid MPI+OpenMP programming tutorial
- Advanced MPI tutorial
- CUDA+MPI tutorial
- Scalasca tutorial
- Python in HPC
- Low-level optimization
Date:
29.08.2011 10:00 - 01.09.2011 15:00
Location:
The main auditorium of CSC at Keilaranta 14, Espoo, Finland.
Language:
English
Lecturers:
See above.
Price:
Free of charge
The school is free of charge but an application for participation is required. Morning and afternoon coffees will be served; lunches can be purchased at the local restaurants for 8-10 euros. The restaurants in the Otaniemi campus (Aalto University) are within a walking distance. The evening caterings (welcoming drinks, refreshments in the poster session and the dinner) will also be free of charge.
Registration
Registration has expired 01.08.2011 13:00
The attendees (40 at maximum) of the school will be selected from the applications (which are filled in with the registration form, link above) basing on the order of registration and the background of the applicants. The decisions of approval will be sent shortly after the registration has closed, on August 3 at the latest. There's a field "Invoice reference number" (an artefact from the registration software) in the registration form that is not needed for the registration to this school, just put something arbitrary (e.g. a dash) on it.
Additional information
- See recommendations and special rates for accommodation options.
- See how to find to the CSC's premises.
- Send all inquiries to courses(at)csc.fi.
- The school is jointly organized by CSC and SNIC-KTH within the FP7 project PRACE-1IP. For more information about the PRACE-1IP project, see www.prace-project.eu.
