Advanced Topics in High Performance Computing @ LRZ

Mar 26, 2018, 9:00 AM → Mar 29, 2018, 5:00 PM CET

Kursraum 2 H.U.010 (LRZ)

In this add-on course to the parallel programming course special topics are treated in more depth, in particular performance analysis, I/O and PGAS concepts. It is provided in collaboration of Erlangen Regional Computing Centre (RRZE) and LRZ within KONWIHR.

The course is a PRACE training event.

Each day is comprised of approximately 5 hours of lectures and 2 hours of hands-on sessions.

Tentative schedule:

Day 1 (09:00-17:00)

• Processor-Specific Optimization (Eitzinger)

Day 2 (09:00-17:00)

• 09:00-12:30 Parallel I/O with MPI IO (Wittmann)
• 13:30-14:30 SuperMUC Tour (Weinberg)
• 14:30-17:00 Tuning I/O on LRZ's HPC systems / I/O Profiling: Darshan tool (Mendez)

Day 3 (09:00-17:00)

• 09:00-12:30 Scientific Data Libraries: HDF5 / Scalable I/O library: SIONlib (Mendez)
• 13:30 - 17:00 Introduction into Intel Xeon Phi (KNL) Programming (Weinberg)

Day 4 (09:00-17:00)

• PGAS programming with coarray Fortran and Unified Parallel C (Bader)

Lecture Notes and Materials