CSC Summer School in High-Performance Computing

Course provider: CSC
Target profile: Postgraduates; but also undergraduates and postdocs.
Date:
26 June 2018 to 04 July 2018
Registration deadline:
13 Apr 2018
Place: Espoo (
Finland
)
Course level: Open to all
Keywords: hpc, Summer School, parallel programming, code optimization

Course description:

The school is aimed at graduate students working in various fields of science, e.g., chemistry, physics, life sciences, engineering or economics. Undergraduates as well as post-docs will also find the school very useful.  The nine days of school are filled with coding, sports & leisure activities and having fun together. Be warned, though, that at this time of the year, the sun will not set almost at all in the Nordic night!

The following topics will be covered :

  • Fortran 95/2003 and C programming languages in scientific programming
  • Basics of parallel programming using the message-passing (MPI) and threading (OpenMP) paradigms
  • Efficient input/output using parallel I/O
  • More advanced topics in MPI
  • Hybrid parallel programming combining MPI, OpenMP
  • High-performance tools for analyzing and visualizing large datasets
  • Building real-world HPC application suites.

The participants will get a certificate from the school that contains a recommendation to your home university to grant you 5 credits (ECTS) for the school.

Application procedure: