Parallel Programming of High Performance Systems

This online course, a collaboration of Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU) and Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ), is targeted at students and scientists with interest in programming modern HPC hardware, specifically the large-scale parallel computing systems available at the Gauss Centers and in the NHR Alliance.

Topics covered include:

• HPC Intro, Systems in Germany
• Elements of MPI and OpenMP
• OpenMP in Depth
• MPI in Depth
• Basic Computer Architecture: Shared Memory
• Basic computer architecture: Distributed Memory
• Profiling Tools
• Performance Pitfalls

Preliminary Agenda

The agenda is available on the event website.

Official language

The official language  is English.

Prerequisites

Course participants should have a working UNIX/Linux knowledge (login with secure shell, shell commands, compilers, vi or emacs editors). Good working knowledge of at least one of the standard HPC languages: Fortran 95, C or C++ is also required

Registration

Waiting list is still open - enroll here.