PRACE Summer of HPC 2018

Jul 1, 2018, 9:00 AM → Aug 30, 2018, 5:00 PM CET

Patersons Land G42 (Training week at University of Edinburgh, EPCC)

These event pages are used for registration (application submission) and later for training week at the beginning of the programme for accepted students. The first week is reserved for an HPC training that will be held at EPCC supercomputing centre, Edingurgh, UK. Then the accepted students will be appointed to the hosting sites where they will enjoy the summer while working on their HPC projects with their mentors. Agenda for the training week is tentative.

For more details on the Summer of HPC programme please visit http://summerofhpc.prace-ri.eu

Sample Application Form PRACE_Summer_of_HPC_2016_-_application-form-sample.pdf

Sunday, July 1

Arrival to the Campus

Monday, July 2

8:45 AM Registration

Please register 5-15 minutes before start at 9h.

Welcome and Introduction

Convener: Dr Leon Kos (University of Ljubljana)

slides SoHPC-training-week-introduction.pdf

Introduction to PRACE and Summer of HPC

Convener: Leon Kos (University of Ljubljana)

10:30 AM Coffee break

1 Group photo

2 Tour of the EPCC Supercomputer Infrastructure

Speaker: Dr Ben Morse (EPCC)

12:00 PM Lunch

Supercomputer HowTo: ARCHER and EPCC training Why learn about HPC? Image Sharpening Parallel Programming Building Blocks (CPU/Memory/Accelerators) Building Blocks (OS/Process/Threads) Fractals Parallel Programming Models

Convener: Mr David Henty (EPCC, The University of Edinburgh)

Course material http://www.archer.ac.uk/training/course-material/2018/07/intro-epcc/

2:30 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM Tea break

3 Blogging and blog website explained

Speaker: Dr Leon Kos (University of Ljubljana)

Awards Summer_of_HPC_Awards_Quantitative_Evaluation_Process_2018.pdf

notes Word_Press_Tutorial_SoHPC.pdf

Slides PRACE_SoHPC_Blogging.pdf

6:00 PM Dinner

Tuesday, July 3

Introduction to HPC: HPC Architectures Batch Systems CFD Compilers Parallel Libraries Future of HPC

Convener: Mr David Henty (EPCC, The University of Edinburgh)

Course material http://www.archer.ac.uk/training/course-material/2018/07/intro-epcc/

10:30 AM Coffee break

12:00 PM Lunch

Introduction to HPC cont.

Convener: Mr David Henty (EPCC, The University of Edinburgh)

2:30 PM Coffee break

6:00 PM Dinner

Wednesday, July 4

Introduction to MPI: ARCHER and the training programme Overview of MPI course Message-Passing Concepts Parallel Traffic Modelling Parallel Traffic Modelling: solution MPI Programs MPI on Cirrus and ARCHER (only ARCHER relevant for this course) Point-to-Point Communication Communicators, Tags and Modes

Training material http://www.archer.ac.uk/training/course-material/2018/07/mpi-epcc/

11:00 AM Coffe break

12:00 PM Lunch

3:30 PM Coffee break

6:00 PM Dinner

Thursday, July 5

MPI cont.

Non-Blocking Communication
Collective Communication
Virtual Topologies
Derived Data Types

Training material http://www.archer.ac.uk/training/course-material/2018/07/mpi-epcc/

12:00 PM Lunch

Friday, July 6

MPI performance

Case Study
Dynamic Memory Allocation in C
MPI Quiz - enter the Room Name HPCQUIZ
MPI Design
MPI Scaling

Convener: Dr Leon Kos (University of Ljubljana)

Traninig material http://www.archer.ac.uk/training/course-material/2018/07/mpi-epcc/

11:00 AM Coffee break

12:00 PM Lunch

6:55 PM Farewell meal

Saturday, July 7

Departure to sites

Monday, July 9

Project at site

Accepted applicants meet mentor and site coordinator and start with the project to the end of the August.