Introduction to Parallel Programming @ CSC

The course introduces the basics of parallel programming with the message passing interface (MPI) and OpenMP paradigms. The course consists of lectures and hands-on exercises on parallel programming.

Agenda

Monday 28 October, 2013

• 09:00 - 09:45 Introduction to parallel computing
• 09:45 - 10:30 Getting started with OpenMP
• 10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break
• 10:45 - 12:00 Exercises
• 12:00 - 12:45 Lunch break
• 12:45 - 13:30 Thread control
• 13:30 - 14:30 Exercises
• 14:30 - 14:45 Coffee break
• 14:45 - 15:45 Exercises
• 15:45 - 16:15 OpenMP wrap-up

Tuesday 29 October, 2013

• 09:00 - 09:30 Getting started with MPI
• 09:30 - 10:15 Point-to-point communication
• 10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break
• 10:30 - 12:15 Exercises
• 12:15 - 13:00 Lunch break
• 13:00 - 13:45 More about point-to-point
• 13:45 - 14:30 Exercises
• 14:30 - 14:45 Coffee break
• 14:45 - 15:30 Non-blocking communication
• 15:30 - 16:15 Exercises

Wednesday 30 October, 2013

• 09:00 - 10:00 Collective operations
• 10:00 - 10:30 Exercises
• 10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break
• 10:45 - 11:30 Exercises
• 11:30 - 12:15 User-defined communicators and process topologies
• 12:15 - 13:00 Lunch break
• 13:00 - 14:30 Exercises
• 14:30 - 14:45 Coffee break
• 14:45 - 15:45 Exercises
• 15:45 - 16:15 Course wrap-up

Learning outcome
After the course the participants should be able to write simple parallel programs and parallelize existing programs with the basic features of MPI or OpenMP.

Pre-requisites
No prior knowledge on parallel programming is required, but the participants are assumed to have working knowledge of either Fortran 90 or C programming languages.

Price: Free of charge
Lecturers: Sami Ilvonen (CSC), Martti Louhivuori (CSC), Mikko Byckling (CSC)