16–17 Sep 2021
Europe/Helsinki timezone
This course will be delivered as an ONLINE COURSE for remote participation 
due to the COVID-19 measures enforced by most European governments.

Description

The course discusses more advanced topics in MPI programming, such as user defined datatypes, as well as parallel I/O using MPI I/O and HDF5. The course consists of lectures and hands-on exercises on parallel programming.

This course is part of CSC Autumn of HPC 2021, a set of five two day modules teaching essential skills in parallel programming for modern GPU-accelerated supercomputers and organised by CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd (Finland) under PRACE Training Centres activity.

Learning outcome

After the course the participants know how to define custom data types and read and write files efficiently in parallel.

Prerequisites and content level

The participants are assumed to have working knowledge of Fortran and/or C/C++ programming languages and skills discussed in the course "Parallel programming with MPI".

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

Preliminary agenda

Day 1, Thursday September 16

  • Custom communicators

  • Persistent communication

  • User defined datatypes

Day 2, Friday September 17

  • Basics of parallel I/O

  • Parallel I/O with MPI

  • Parallel I/O with HDF5

Lecturers

Cristian Achim (CSC), Jussi Enkovaara (CSC)

Language:  English
Price:           Free of charge
(2 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 patc@csc.fi

Starts
Ends
Europe/Helsinki
ONLINE

FOR ONLY ON-LOCATION COURSES @ CSC

How to reach us

CSC is located in Keilaniemi, Espoo, 10 km west of the Helsinki City Center. Detailed information is available here.

Accommodation

We recommend choosing a hotel close to our premises. The nearest hotel is Radisson Blu Espoo, which is in a walking distance (only 500 m) from CSC. Another hotel close to the venue (1,8 km) is Sokos Hotel Tapiola Garden. Other hotels are located in Helsinki downtown with a frequent and fast metro connection to Keilaniemi. Please note, that there are no special rates for participants at any hotels.

If you have any questions, please click on the support link on the left to send an e-mail to the local organizers.