Course description:
Most HPC systems are clusters of shared memory nodes. Such SMP nodes can be small multi-core CPUs up to large many-core CPUs. Parallel programming may combine the distributed memory parallelization on the node interconnect (e.g., with MPI) with the shared memory parallelization inside of each node (e.g., with OpenMP or MPI-3.0 shared memory). This course analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of several parallel programming models on clusters of SMP nodes. Multi-socket-multi-core systems in highly parallel environments are given special consideration. MPI-3.0 has introduced a new shared memory programming interface, which can be combined with inter-node MPI communication. It can be used for direct neighbor accesses similar to OpenMP or for direct halo copies, and enables new hybrid programming models. These models are compared with various hybrid MPI+OpenMP approaches and pure MPI. Numerous case studies and micro-benchmarks demonstrate the performance-related aspects of hybrid programming.
Tools for hybrid programming such as thread/process placement support and performance analysis are presented in a "how-to" section. This course provides scientific training in Computational Science, and in addition, the scientific exchange of the participants among themselves.
Prerequisites: Basic MPI and OpenMP knowledge as presented in several MPI and OpenMP parallelization courses, e.g., in an HLRS course program, see
http://www.hlrs.de/training/ and
http://www.hlrs.de/training/course-list/
Language: English
Fees:
Students without Diploma/Master: 20 EUR
Students with Diploma/Master (PhD students) at German universities: 30 EUR
Members of German universities and public research institutes: 30 EUR
Members of universities and public research institutes within EU or PRACE member countries: 60 EUR.
Members of other universities and public research institutes: 120 EUR
Others: 240 EUR
(includes coffee breaks)
Application procedure:
For further course information and registration procedure, see http://www.hlrs.de/training/2018-06-19-hy-s/