Advanced OpenMP @ EPCC at University of Manchester

Europe/London
Training Room 2, Ground Floor (This course will take place at University of Manchester)

Training Room 2, Ground Floor

This course will take place at University of Manchester

Research IT, University of Manchester, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL
Description

Please note:  This course will be led by EPCC but held in Manchester

Training Room 2, Ground Floor

Research IT,
University of Manchester, 
Kilburn Building,
Oxford Road,
Manchester,
M13 9PL

OpenMP is the industry standard for shared-memory programming, which enables serial programs to be parallelised using compiler directives.This course is aimed at programmers seeking to deepen their understanding of OpenMP and explore some of its more recent and advanced features.

This 2-day course will cover topics including nested parallelism, OpenMP tasks, the OpenMP memory model, performance tuning, hybrid OpenMP + MPI, OpenMP implementations, and new features in OpenMP 4.0. Hands-on practical programming exercises make up a significant, and integral, part of this course.

Attendees should be familiar with the basics of OpenMP, including parallel regions, data scoping, work sharing directives and synchronisation constructs. Access will be given to appropriate hardware for all the exercises, although many of them can also be performed on a standard Linux laptop.

Slides
  • Thursday, July 2
    • Registration and COFFEE
    • Lectures: Tasks, Nested parallelism, Memory model
    • Practicals: Mandelbrot with loops, nested, collapse, and tasks
    • LUNCH
    • Lectures: OpenMP + MPI, Cache coherency
    • COFFEE
    • Practicals: OpenMP + MPI
    • Lectures: Performance issues, OpenMP tips, tricks and pitfalls, OpenMP 4.0
    • COFFEE
    • Practicals: MD tuning
    • LUNCH
    • Seminar: "What next for OpenMP and MPI?"
    • COFFEE