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LRZ Workshops and Tutorials for High Performance Computing

For the efficient usage of HPC computing architectures, knowledge in the area of parallel programming and code optimization is indispensable.LRZ offers regular training courses on various subjects in HPC. In this area LRZ collaborates with the  HPC group of the  Erlangen Computing Centre and the Competence Network for Scientific High Performance Computing in Bavaria,  and the partners within the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing. 

Eclipse: C/C++ programming (with a slight Fortran touch)

Date: October 1, 2010 9:00-18:00
Location: LRZ Building, University campus Garching, near Munich. LRZ course room H.U.010.
Contents: This course is targeted at scientists who wish to be introduced to programming C/C++ with the Eclipse C/C++ Development Tools (CDT). A short introduction to Eclipse's Fortran programming tool, Photran, will also be included. Topics covered include:
  • Introduction to Eclipse IDE
  • Introduction to CDT
  • Hands-on with CDT
  • Short introduction to Eclipse Photran
  • Demo of Photran
Prerequisites Course participants should have basic knowledge of the C and/or C++ programming languages.
Language: English
Teachers: Siew Hoon Leong (Cerlane) and Carla Guillen
Registration: Via the LRZ registration form (Please choose course HECL1W10)

Compact course: Iterative linear solvers and parallelization

Date: Monday, October 4 - Friday, October 8, 2010, 8:30-17:30
Location: LRZ Building, Garching/Munich, Boltzmannstr. 1
Contents: The focus of this compact course is on iterative and parallel solvers, the parallel programming models MPI and OpenMP, and the parallel middleware PETSc.

Different modern Krylov Subspace Methods (CG, GMRES, BiCGSTAB ...) as well as highly efficient preconditioning techniques are presented in the context of real life applications.

Hands-on sessions (in C and Fortran) will allow users to immediately test and understand the

  • basic constructs of iterative solvers
  • the Message Passing Interface (MPI)
  • the shared memory directives of OpenMP.

This course is organized by the University of Kassel, the high performance computing centre of Stuttgart (HLRS) and IAG.
Language: German
Teachers: Prof. Dr. Andreas Meister from Uni. Kassel, Prof. Dr. Bernd Fischer from Uni. Lübeck, and Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner from HLRS
Registration: via the online registration form (Registration is not at LRZ but at HLRS)
Course Fee: Students without Diploma: 30 EUR
Students with Diploma (PhD students) at German universities: 60 EUR
Members of German universities and public research institutes: 60 EUR
others: 300 EUR
(includes food and drink at coffee breaks, will be collected on the first day of the course, cash only)
Further details: available from the HLRS page for the event

Advanced Fortran Topics

Date: Monday, October 11 - Friday, October 15, 2010, 9:00-18:00
Location: LRZ Building, Garching/Munich, Boltzmannstr. 1
Contents: This course is targeted at scientists who wish to extend their knowledge of Fortran beyond what is provided in the Fortran 95 standard. Some other tools relevant for software engineering are also discussed. Topics covered include
  • object oriented features, submodules
  • design patterns
  • generation and handling of shared libraries
  • mixed language programming
  • standardized IEEE arithmetic
  • I/O extensions from Fortran 2003
  • parallel programming with coarrays
  • the Eclipse development environment
  • source code versioning system (subversion)

To consolidate the lecture material, each day?s approximately 4 hours of lecture are complemented by 3 hours of hands-on sessions.
Prerequisites Course participants should have basic UNIX/Linux knowledge (login with secure shell, shell commands, simple scripts, editor vi or emacs). Good knowledge of the Fortran 95 standard is also necessary, such as covered in the February course at LRZ.
Language: English
Teachers: R. Bader, A. Block, M. Müller
Registration: Via the LRZ registration form  (Please choose course HFTN1W10)

Einführung in C++ für Programmierer

Datum: Montag, 11. Oktober, bis Freitag, 15. Oktober, 2010, 9:00-18:00
Ort: Leibniz Rechenzentrum, Boltzmannstr. 1, Garching bei München
Inhalt:

Dieser Kurs bietet eine Einführung in die Programmiersprache C++. Grundlegende Kenntnisse der Sprache C werden vorausgesetzt. Da der Kurs mit einer kurzen Einführung in C beginnt, ist er jedoch auch für Programmierer geeignet, die andere imperative Sprachen beherrschen.

Das Material orientiert sich nicht speziell an Anwendungen aus dem Bereich des wissenschaftlichen Rechnens, jedoch wird auch das Thema "effizienter C++-Code" gestreift. Zahlreiche Übungsaufgaben vertiefen den Stoff.

Überblick der Kursinhalte:

  • Wiederholung der Grundlagen aus C
  • Klassen und Objekte
  • Überladen von Operatoren
  • Vererbung
  • Virtuelle Funktionen und abstrakte Klassen
  • Generische Programmierung
  • Ein-/Ausgabe
  • Ausnahmebehandlung
  • Laufzeit-Typinformation (RTTI)
  • Richtlinien für effizienten C++-Code
  • Fortgeschrittene Programmiertechniken
  • Entwurfsmuster (Patterns)
Voraussetzungen: Grundlegende Kenntnisse im Umgang mit GNU/Linux Systemen (Login mit ssh, einfache Shell Befehle, einfache Skripte, Editoren, ...). Grundlegende Kenntnisse der Programmiersprache C.
Sprache: Deutsch. Alle Präsentationsfolien sind in deutscher Sprache abgefasst.
Dozent: Georg Hager (Regionales RechenZentrum Erlangen, RRZE)
Anmeldung: Über das LRZ Anmeldeformular (Bitte wählen Sie den Kurs HPCC1W10)

Parallel performance Analysis with VAMPIR

Date: October 18, 2010
Location: LRZ Building, University campus Garching, near Munich
Contents: Running parallel codes on large-scale systems with thousands of MPI tasks typically requires tuning measures in order to reduce MPI overhead, load balancing problems and serialized execution phases. VAMPIR is a tool that allows to identify and locate these scalability issues by generating trace files from program runs that can afterwards be analyzed using a GUI.
Prerequisites Participants are required to have good knowledge of either C, C++ or Fortran, as well of the message passing concepts (MPI) needed for parallel programming.
Language: English
Teachers: O. Rivera
Registration: Via the LRZ registration form (HPPA1W10)

Introduction to the Usage of High Performance Systems,
Remote Visualization and Grid Facilities at LRZ

Date: October 20, 2010 14:00-17:00
Location: LRZ Building, University campus Garching, near Munich
Contents: The National High-End System HLRB II provides nearly ten thousand cores and the Linux cluster systems at LRZ more than 4,000 cores to scientists and students. Furthermore, powerful remote visualization facilities are available. Based on hands-on examples, an easy-to-follow introduction to the hard- and software of the cluster systems, the visualization systems and usage of the grid middleware (Globus Toolkit) is given. Grid certificates can be provided if needed.
Prerequisites For obtaining a grid certificate participants are required to show a valid ID card or passport
Language: English
Teachers: Dr. F. Jamitzky, Dr. H. Satzger et al.
Registration: Via the LRZ registration form (choose course HPCI1W10)

Intel Ct Training

Date: Tuesday, Nov 30, 2010 – Wednesday, Dec 1, 2010 (tentative)
Location: LRZ Building, University campus Garching, near Munich.
Contents: Intel's Ct technology provides a generalized data parallel programming solution that frees application developers from dependencies on particular low-level parallelism mechanisms or hardware architectures. It produces scalable, portable, and deterministic parallel implementations from a single high-level, maintainable, and application-oriented specification of the desired computation.
Prerequisites Course participants should have good knowledge of C++.
Language: English
Teachers:

Hans Pabst/Intel
Registration:

The content and date of the course are not yet finalized. Please contact the LRZ registration form (registration will open soon)

GPGPU Programming

Date: Tuesday, Dec 7, 2010 - Thursday, Dec 9, 2010, 10:00-17:00
Location: LRZ Building, University campus Garching, near Munich
Contents: Heterogeneous GPGPU computing promises tremendous acceleration of applications. This programming workshop includes hands-on sessions, application examples and an introduction to CUDA, CAPS, cuBLAS, cuFFT, the Portland Group Fortran Compiler, pycuda, and R. The intended audience includes scientists which want to port their simulation software to GPGPUsas well as people interested in a short overview of the available programming techniques.
Prerequisites Participants should have a fair understanding of programming in general and should have knowledge in at least one of the following programming languages: Fortran, C/C++, Python.
Language: English
Teachers: Dr. Allalen, Dr. Jamitzky, Dr. Satzger, Dr.Weinberg, Dr. Stich (from NVidia)
Registration: Via the LRZ registration form (choose course HGPU1W10)

Scientific 3D-Animation with Blender

Date: Thursday, Jan 13, 2011 - Friday, Jan 14, 2011, 10:00-17:00
Location: LRZ Building, University campus Garching, near Munich, course room H.U.010
Contents: The course gives an introduction into the high-quality visualisation and animation of scientific data using the open source 3D animation software blender (www.blender.org). The aim is to equip participants with the tools and techniques to produce professional quality animations for their scientific projects. Based on a real-world example (protein molecule), the course covers all steps of a project: importing the data, cleaning up the geometry, assigning materials, lighting, keyframing and post-production.
Prerequisites Participants should have a fair understanding of at least one programming language as well as basic UNIX knowledge (Linux/MacOS).
Language: German
Teachers: Andrea Weikert (a long-time developer in the blender project), Dr. Helmut Satzger (visualization expert at LRZ)
Registration: Via the LRZ registration form (choose course GVIS1W10)

Introduction to the PGAS languages UPC and CAF

Date: January 19, 2011, 9:00-18:00
Location: LRZ Building, Garching/Munich, Boltzmannstr. 1
Contents: Partitioned global address space languages have emerged as an alternative to other parallel programming models, promising a shorter development cycle due to improved programmability while keeping the performance level on par with MPI. This course introduces the parallel  facilities integrated into the Fortran language (coarrays) and the C language (unified parallel C), respectively. A hands-on session allows to experiment with the new concepts, using prototype implementations on LRZ?s HPC systems.
Prerequisites Course participants should have a good working knowledge of Fortran and/or C.
Language: English
Teachers: A. Block, R. Bader
Registration: Via the LRZ registration form (choose course HPGA1W10)

Introduction to Molecular Modeling on Supercomputers

Date: Jan 25 - Jan 27, 2011 10:00-17:00
Location: LRZ Building, University campus Garching, near Munich
Contents: The course gives an introduction into the simulation of molecules based on several software packages on the supercomputers at LRZ Garching. (Maestro, Desmond, VMD, NAMD, Gromacs) This also includes an introduction to the remote visualization services at LRZ as well as hands-on sessions. The course focuses on biomolecules and targets the life science community. Hands-on sessions featuring example applications are given.
Prerequisites Participants should have some basic knowledge in programming and life science software
Language: English
Teachers: Dr. Allalen, Dr. Jamitzky, Dr. Satzger, Dr. Christian Peifer and Dr. Jianxin Duan (Schrödinger Software Inc.)
Registration: Via the LRZ registration form (choose course HMMS1W10)

Programming with Fortran

provisional Date: Monday, February 7 - Friday, February 11, 2011, 9:00-18:00
Location: LRZ Building, Garching/Munich, Boltzmannstr. 1
Contents: This course is targeted at scientists with little or no knowledge of the Fortran programming language, but need it for participation in projects using a Fortran code base, for development of their own codes, and for getting acquainted with additional tools like debugger and syntax checker as well as handling of compilers and libraries. The language is for the most part treated at the level of the Fortran 95 standard; features from Fortran 2003 are limited to improvements on the elementary level. Advanced Fortran features like object-oriented programming or coarrays will be covered in a follow-on course in October.

To consolidate the lecture material, each day?s approximately 4 hours of lecture are com­ple­mented by 3 hours of hands-on sessions.
Prerequisites Course participants should have basic UNIX/Linux knowledge (login with secure shell, shell commands, simple scripts, editor vi or emacs).
Language: English
Teachers: R. Bader
Registration: Via the LRZ registration form (choose course HFOR1W10)

Parallel programming with R

Date: Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011 10:00-16:00
Location: LRZ Building, University campus Garching, near Munich
Contents: R is known as a very powerful language for statistics, but it has also evolved into a tool for the analysis and visualisation of large data sets which are typically obtained from supercomputing applications. The course teaches the use of the dynamic language R for parallel programming of supercomputers and features rapid prototyping of simple simulations. Several parallel programming models including Rmpi, snow, multicore, and gputools are presented which exploit the multiple processors that are standard on modern supercomputer architectures. Hands-on sessions with example applications are given.
Prerequisites Participants should have some basic knowledge in programming with R.
Language: English
Teachers: Dr. Jamitzky
Registration: Via the LRZ registration form (choose course HPPR1W10)

Visualisation of Large Data Sets on Supercomputers

Date: Wednesday, Feb 23 2011, 10:00 - 17:00
Location: LRZ Building, University campus Garching, near Munich
Contents: The results of supercomputing simulations are data sets which have grown considerably over the years, giving rise to a need for parallel visualisation software packages. The course focuses on the software packages Paraview, Visit, Vapor and R and their use to visualize and analyse large data sets generated by supercomputer applications which are typically generated in the fields of CFD, molecular modelling, astrophysics, quantum chemistry and similar. Hands-on sessions featuring example applications are given.
Prerequisites Participants should have some basic knowledge in programming and use of the Linux operating environment.
Language: English
Teachers: Dr. Jamitzky, Dr. Satzger, Dr. Rampp (RZG)
Registration: Via the LRZ registration form (choose course HVLS1W10)

Parallel Programming of High Performance Systems

provisional Date: Monday, March 7 - Friday, March 11, 2011, 9:00-18:00
Location: LRZ Building, University campus Garching, near Munich.

RRZE building, University campus Erlangen, Martensstr.1 (via video conference)
Contents: This course, a collaboration of Erlangen Regional Computing Centre (RRZE) and LRZ, is targeted at students and scientists with interest in programming modern HPC hardware, specifically the large scale parallel computing systems available in Jülich, Stuttgart and Munich.

Each day is comprised of approximately 4 hours of lectures and 3 hours of hands-on sessions.

Day 1

  • Introduction to High Performance Computing
  • HPC systems at LRZ and in Germany
  • Technical aspects of software engineering: development process, usage of libraries, memory management, tools for code documentation, development environments
  • Tools: Using Secure Shell, Screen, SVN and Make

Day 2

  • Processor Architectures: Register, Cache, Locality, Performance metrics
  • Overview of Accelerators
  • Basic features of parallel programming with MPI and OpenMP
  • Using the Batch systems and software environment at LRZ/RRZE

Day 3

  • Architecture independent optimization strategies: unrolling, blocking, dependencies, C++ issues, bandwidth issues, performance projectionscw
  • architecture specific optimization strategies: compiler switches, avoiding cache thrashing, exploiting SIMD capabilities
  • Features of current processor architectures relevant for HPC
  • Using performance libraries

Days 4 + 5

  • Parallel algorithms: data parallelism, domain decomposition, task parallelism, master-worker, granularity, load balancing, scalability models
  • Parallel Architectures: multi-core, multi-socket, ccNUMA, cache coherence and affinity, tools for handling memory affinity
  • Distributed memory architectures, interconnects and their topologies
  • Advanced OpenMP
  • Advanced MPI
Prerequisites Good working knowledge of at least one of the standard HPC languages: Fortran 95, C or C++.
Language: English
Teachers: G. Hager, Jan Treibig (RRZE), R. Bader, M. Müller (LRZ)
Registration: Via the LRZ registration form (choose course HPPP1W10)

Advanced Topics in High Performance Computing

provisional Date: Monday, March 21 - Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 9:00-18:00
Location: LRZ Building, University campus Garching, near Munich
Contents: In this add-on course to the parallel programming course special topics are treated in more depth, in particular performance analysis and I/O. It is provided in collaboration of Erlangen Regional Computing Centre (RRZE) and LRZ.

Each day is comprised of approximately 5 hours of lectures and 2 hours of hands-on sessions.

 Day 1

  • Intel Tracing Tools: MPI tracing and correctness checking
  • Intel Threading tools for OpenMP correctness checking and profiling
  • Profiling on SGI Altix systems: histx and lipfpm
  • Introduction to Scalasca

 Day 2

  • Parallel application performance analysis with Scalasca
  • Parallel input/output with MPI-IO

 Day 3

  • I/O tuning on high performance file systems
  • Portability of binary files, big/little endian issues
  • Using I/O libraries (pNetCDF, HDF5)
Prerequisites Good MPI and OpenMP knowledge as presented in the course ?Parallel programming of High Performance Systems?.
Language: English
Teachers: Dr. R. Bader et al.
Registration: Via the LRZ registration form (choose course HPAT1W10)

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PRACE HPC training

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