Cray’s supercomputer platforms are an advanced pairing of software and hardware that provide HPC application developers and users the opportunity of excellent scaling and high productivity. This workshop, provided staff from the Cray Centre of Excellence for HECToR, offers instruction and insight into using the advanced tools available for analysing and optimising applications on the Cray XE6 and XC30 systems available at PRACE member sites.
Intended for users with experience or an interest in running on a Cray platform, this course will cover topics like:
In addition to this two-day PRACE workshop, the Cray Centre of Excellence will be running an additional morning on Friday 28th June 2013 at the same venue covering the next generation Cray XC30 hardware. This morning will include:
Pre-requisites:
Users should have a working knowledge of Fortran, C or C++ and would benefit from knowledge of a parallel programming like MPI, OpenMP, OpenSHMEM, UPC or Fortran Coarrays.
Intended for users with experience or an interest in running on a Cray platform, this course will cover topics like:
- Using the Cray Performance Analysis Toolkit (CrayPAT) to automatically analyse applications, including providing automatic optimisation suggestions.
- Reveal, a source code scoping and analysis tool for assisting users understanding and parallelising application loops.
- Advanced application placement and ordering for alleviating load imbalance and optimising inter-process communication.
- Optimising IO patterns for improved throughput and easier data management.
In addition to this two-day PRACE workshop, the Cray Centre of Excellence will be running an additional morning on Friday 28th June 2013 at the same venue covering the next generation Cray XC30 hardware. This morning will include:
- A detailed explanation of the Cray XC30’s new Aries Interconnect and Dragonfly network topology.
- Compiler features and techniques for optimising applications for the Cray XC30’s new Intel CPUs.
Pre-requisites:
Users should have a working knowledge of Fortran, C or C++ and would benefit from knowledge of a parallel programming like MPI, OpenMP, OpenSHMEM, UPC or Fortran Coarrays.