Tools and techniques for scientific programming on BG/Q

Dec 3, 2012, 10:00 AM → Dec 4, 2012, 5:30 PM CET

Gene M.Amdahl (CINECA)

Starting from summer 2012, CINECA provides one of the major high-performance computing resources to the scientific community in Italy and Europe. The aim of the course is to give scientific users an introductory overview of the FERMI system, a description of the main tools and techniques useful to enable a scientific application for BG/Q architecture and hints for an efficient exploitation of the system.

Topics

• Overview of the IBM BlueGene/Q architecture
• Usage of the FERMI supercomputer and its software resources (libraries, applications, tools)
• Performance tuning
• I/O and data management

Learning outcomes
Enabling applications for the BlueGene/Q architecture. Ability to work on the FERMI Tier-0 system.

Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of Linux/UNIX and experience on parallel programming.

Price: Free of charge

AGENDA BGQ-AGENDA.pdf