BSC Training Course: Parallel Programming Workshop

Date: 14/Oct/2024 Time: 09:30 - 18/Oct/2024 Time: 17:30

Place:

C6-E101, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona

 

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; ADVANCED: for trainees able to work independently and requiring guidance for solving complex problems.

Cost: There is no registration fee.

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Sessions will be in October 14th-18th, 2024 from 9:30 – 13:00 and from 14:30 to 17:30 CET with 20’ break in between sessions and 1h30' lunch break

Agenda still subject to changes

Day 1 (Monday October 14th)

Session 1 / 9:30 – 13:00 (20`rest in between)
1. Introduction to parallel architectures, algorithms design and performance parameters
2. Introduction to the MPI programming model
3. Practical: How to compile and run MPI applications

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break

Session 2 / 14:30 – 17:30 (20`rest in between)

1. MPI: Non-blocking communication, collective communication, datatypes
2. Practical: Simple stencil
3. MPI: One-sided communication

Day 2 (Tuesday October 15th)

Session 1 / 9:30 – 13:00 (20`rest in between)

1. MPI: Hybrid Programming with Shared Memory and Accelerators; Non-blocking Collectives, Topologies, and Neighborhood Collectives
2. Practical: One-sided, shared-memory, topologies

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break

Session 2 / 14:30 – 17:30 (20`rest in between)

1. Parallel debugging in MareNostrumIII, options from print to Totalview
2. Practical: GDB and IDB
3. Practical: Totalview
4. Practical: Valgrind for memory leaks

Day 3 (Wednesday October 16th)

Session 1 / 9:30 – 13:00 (20`rest in between)

1. Introduction to Paraver: tool to analyze and understand performance
2. Practical: Trace generation and trace analysis

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break

Session 2 / 14:30 – 17:30 (20`rest in between)
1. Shared-memory programming models, OpenMP fundamentals
2. Parallel regions and work sharing constructs
3. Synchronization mechanisms in OpenMP
4. Practical: sample parallel and worksharing exercises

Day 4 (Thursday October 17th)

Session 1 / 9:30 – 13:00 (20`rest in between)

1. Worksharing constructs (continued)
2. OpenMP Tasking
3. Practical: Worksharing and Tasking

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break

Session 2 / 14:30 – 17:30 (20`rest in between)
1. Codee: static code analysis for performance and Fortran modernization
2. Practical session: Codee for guided parallelization and Fortran modernization through auto-fixes

Day 5 (Friday October 18th)

Session 1 / 9:30 – 13:00 (20`rest in between)
1. Introduction to the OmpSs-2 programming model
2. Practical: cholesky, matrix multiplication, axpy, dot-product

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break

Session 2 / 14:30 – 17:30 (20`rest in between)
1. Programming using a hybrid MPI/OmpSs approach and TAMPI
2. Practical: heat equation example and n-body examples

END OF TRAINING COURSE