Joint HP-SEE, LinkSCEEM-2 and PRACE HPC Summer Training

CET
Athens

Athens

Description
The Joint HPC training organized by HP-SEE, LinkSCEEM-2 and PRACE, will gather scientists from the wide spectrum of fields this July in Athens, Greece.
 
The training  aims to enhance the knowledge of current HPC users, and to engage new user communities in the use of HPC infrastructure. It will take place from 13th to 15th of July 2011 at the training Center of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE Academy) in Athens, Greece.
 
The content consists of lectures and hands-on sessions in the field of HPC usage for multi-disciplinary scientific research communities with the focus on parallel programming methods, performance analysis tools and code optimization. The lectures will be given by accredited PRACE, HP-SEE and LinkSCEEM trainers and experts in the HPC field.

Programme
 
The training programme is under development by the event's programme committee.
 
The main subjects to be covered in the training sessions are advanced modules in:
  • MPI, OpenMP, Hybrid Programming
  • CUDA Programming
  • Profiling
  • Optimization and Benchmarking
Slides
    • 9:15 AM 9:45 AM
      Welcome address

      High-Performance Computing: Regional Developments and Future Opportunities

    • 9:45 AM 10:15 AM
      LinkSCEEM-II project presentation
    • 10:15 AM 10:30 AM
      HPC user support within LinkSCEEM-2 project
    • 10:30 AM 10:45 AM
      Biblioteca Alexandrina HPC site
    • 10:45 AM 11:00 AM
      Coffee break 15m
    • 11:00 AM 12:00 PM
      Presentations of users & activities

      Solving linear systems with multiple right-hand sides: Kernel for scientific computing and parallel computing challenges

      Modelling Particle Shape in Distinct Element Method

      Research Areas in Helwan University in Egypt Looking for HPC

    • 12:00 PM 1:00 PM
      Lunch break 1h
    • 1:00 PM 1:15 PM
      Opening, Logistics and Programme
    • 1:15 PM 2:15 PM
      Message Passing Interface (MPI)
    • 2:15 PM 3:15 PM
      Shared Memory Parallelism (OpenMP)
    • 3:15 PM 3:45 PM
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 3:45 PM 4:45 PM
      Hybrid (MPI + OpenMP) programming
    • 4:45 PM 5:15 PM
      Evaluation and Benchmarking of highly scalable parallel numerical libraries
    • 5:15 PM 6:00 PM
      Introduction to the IBM Blue Gene
    • 6:00 PM 6:15 PM
      Day 1 Closing Remarks
    • 8:30 AM 10:30 AM
      Hybrid (MPI + OpenMP) programming

      Hands On

    • 10:30 AM 11:00 AM
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 11:00 AM 12:00 PM
      Hybrid (MPI + OpenMP) programming

      Hands On

    • 12:00 PM 1:00 PM
      Lunch Break 1h
    • 1:00 PM 3:00 PM
      CUDA Programming
    • 3:00 PM 3:30 PM
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 3:30 PM 6:00 PM
      CUDA Programming

      Hands On

    • 6:00 PM 6:15 PM
      Day 2 Closing Remarks
    • 9:00 AM 10:00 AM
      WS-PGRADE/gUSE
    • 10:00 AM 11:30 AM
      Profiling
    • 11:30 AM 12:00 PM
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 12:00 PM 1:30 PM
      Profiling
    • 1:30 PM 2:30 PM
      Lunch Break 1h
    • 2:30 PM 4:00 PM
      Optimisation and Benchmarking
    • 4:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 4:30 PM 6:00 PM
      Optimisation and Benchmarking
    • 6:00 PM 6:15 PM
      Scientific Computing Activities at The Cyprus Institute 15'
    • 6:15 PM 6:30 PM
      Day 3 Closing Remarks