Name: Introduction to Parallel Programming @ CSC
Start: 2013-10-28T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2013-10-30T17:00:00+02:00
Location: CSC - IT Center for Science

Description

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)

Support

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Introduction to Parallel Programming @ CSC

Training room Dogmi, first floor

CSC - IT Center for Science