This course will be delivered as an ONLINE COURSE for remote participation 
due to the COVID-19 measures enforced by most European governments.

Description

This course addresses hybrid programming by combining OpenMP and MPI, as well as more advanced topics in MPI (communication topologies, user-defined data type, and one-side-communications). Also, parallel I/O is discussed and exemplified in the course. The course consists of lectures and hands-on exercises on Puhti. The participants will be informed on connections details before the course.

Learning outcome

After the course the participants should be able to know how to combine MPI and OpenMP programming models to use full nodes efficiently, how to define its own sub-communicators in order to take advantage of network topology or special data patterns, define its own custom datatypes, and know how to efficiently save data in parallel using MPI-IO or HDF5, as well as understand the basics of the one-sided MPI communication.

Prerequisites and content level

In order to take the course the participant should be fluent in FORTRAN and/or C programming languages and have taken the PTC course Introduction to Parallel Computing or have similar background knowledge of MPI and OpenMP.

The content level of the course is broken down as: beginner's - 14%, intermediate - 51%, advanced - 35%, community-targeted content - 0%.

Agenda

Day 1, Wednesday March 10

09.00-09.45 Course intro, MPI & OpenMP recap


9:45 -9:50   Break


09:50-10.20 Hybrid MPI + OpenMP programming I


10.20-12.00 Exercises (offline)


12:00 - 13:00  Lunch time recommended


13.00-13.30 Exercises (offline)


13.30-14.15 Hybrid MPI + OpenMP programming II


14.15-15.30 Exercises (offline)


15.30-16.00 Q&A session

Day 2, Thursday March 11

09.00-09.45 Advanced MPI I: User-defined datatypes


9:45 -9:50   Break


09:50-10.20 Advanced MPI II: Communication topologies


10.20-12.00 Exercises (offline)


12:00 - 13:00  Lunch time recommended


13.00-13.30 Exercises (offline)


13.30-14.15 Advanced MPI III: One-sided communication


14.15-15.30 Exercises (offline)


15.30-16.00 Q&A session

Day 3, Friday March  12

09.00-09.30 Parallel I/O I: Simple POSIX with MPI


9:30 -9:35  Break


09:35-11.00 Parallel I/O II: MPI-IO


11.00-12.00 Exercises (offline)


12:00 - 13:00  Lunch time recommended


13.00-14.30 Exercises (offline)


14.30-15.00 Parallel I/O III: with HDF5


15.00-15.30 Exercises (offline)


15.30-16.00 Q&A session

Lecturers: 

Cristian Achim (CSC), Martti Louhivuori (CSC)

Language:  English
Price:           Free of charge (3 training days)

REGISTRATION is OBLIGATORY since the details to access the online course will be provided to the registered and accepted attendees only. If you have registered to this course and you are not able to attend, please CANCEL your registration in advance by sending an email to [email protected]
https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/1156/