Description: The PRACE Course: “HPC - Intermediate concepts for end-users” is intended for researchers and IT specialists having basic knowledge of HPC usage wishing to advance in the field. It builds on the top of the first PRACE Course HPC Fundamentals for end-users, February 1-4, 2022 and extends it by discussing the profiling and scaling of parallel applications, which is extremely important for efficiently running simulations on Petascale systems. The course starts with an introduction to modern build tools and parallel frameworks including TBB, OpenACC and DC++. It then proceeds to present the concept of profiling parallel applications, techniques and important metrics, demonstrated with an example of a simple implementation of the Conjugate Gradient algorithm. The third day is dedicated to weak and strong scaling procedures, demonstrated on a state-of-the-art scientific parallel application. The last day is fully dedicated to the versatile use of Python in HPC. PetaSC/Sofia TechPark will graciously provide Discoverer compute resources for the hands-on sessions. The second PRACE course is joint effort by NCSA Bulgaria and PetaSC/Sofia TechPark Bulgaria.
Target audience: Under-graduate and graduate students, Ph.D. students, junior researchers (academy and industry), IT specialist, Software Engineers or anyone who wants to use Discoverer petascale supercomputer system in their research & business activities.
Prerequisites: Requirements for the participants: fundamental usage of HPC systems, including compiling and building parallel codes, MPI, OpenMP, experience with Linux operating systems.
Registration: Please click here.
Registration deadline: April 6, 2022.
Selection process: There is a threshold number of participants (no more than 40 registrations), a timely registration is essential. Attendees must be from institutions (universities, research centers, and companies) based in the EU or Associated Countries to the Horizon 2020 Programme. We will prioritise attendees from South-East Europe, Israel, and Ukraine as well as participants that come from other EU13 countries.
Programme: A detailed programme, you can see here.
Cost: There is no registration fee. The course is free of charge.
Organising committee coordinators: Assoc. prof. Dr. Peicho Petkov (NCSA) and Prof. Dr. Simeon Stoyanov (PetaSC).
