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Parallel Programming Workshop

Abstract
The aim of these workshops is to give people who already have some programming experience an introduction into the numerics of linear solvers and the basics of parallel programming. The focus is on iterative solvers, the programming models MPI and OpenMP, domain decomposition, load balancing and parallel numerics. Language support is given for Fortran, C and C++.
Message Passing with MPI is the major programming model on large distributed-memory systems in high-performance computing. OpenMP is dedicated to shared memory systems.
Hands-on sessions will allow users to immediately test linear solver programming and to understand what the basic constructs of MPI and OpenMP are meant to do.

Dates

The workshops in spring/fall 2004 are given with different focus and locations:

Course A: Feb. 17-19, Dresden, ZHR MPI and OpenMP (in German)
Course B: Mar. 8-12, Stuttgart, HLRS Iterative Linear Solver and Parallelization
(in German)
Course C: Mar. 15-19, Stuttgart, HLRS Advanced topics in high performance computing
and parallel programming

(in German)
Course D: Mar.29-Apr.2, Stuttgart, HLRS Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics
(in German)
Course A+: Aug. 04-06, Dresden, ZHR MPI and OpenMP (in German)
Course E: Sep. 13-17, Kassel, Math. Iterative Linear Solver and Parallelization
(in German)
Course F: Oct. 11-15, Stuttgart, HLRS MPI and OpenMP for beginners
and advanced topics in high performance computing

(in English if required)
Course G: Nov.29-Dec.1, Jülich, NIC MPI and OpenMP (in German)
Online course: the parallel programming workshop is also available as an online-course with all slides and full audio information.
Further courses: see online-course / end of page


Language

The course language is German (except the course Oct. 11-15 at HLRS, which is in English if required).
All slides and course materials are in English (except slides of A. Meister and B. Fischer).

HLRS ZHR Kassel IAG EPCC NIC Luebeck


Course A Location ZHR, Zellescher Weg 12, Willers-Bau A 220, D-01062 Dresden -> travel-info,
Date 2004, Tuesday Feb. 17, 9:00 - Thursday Feb. 19, 16:30
Content MPI and OpenMP (70% for beginners, 30% advanced)
Abstract The focus is on programming models MPI, OpenMP, and PETSc. Hands-on sessions (in C and Fortran) will allow users to immediately test and understand the basic constructs of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) and the shared memory directives of OpenMP. This course is organized by ZHR in collaboration with HLRS.
Agenda see link to detailed program
Language German
Teachers Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner, from HLRS, and Claudia Schmidt from ZHR
Registration registration form via URZ/ZHR announcement, TU Dresden
Deadline for registration is Jan. 27, 2004
Fee none
Prerequisites Unix / C or Fortran
Course B Location HLRS, Rechenzentrum Universität Stuttgart (RUS), Allmandring 30, D-70550 Stuttgart
Date 2004, Monday Mar. 8, 8:30 - Friday Mar. 12, 15:30
Content Iterative Linear Solvers and Parallelization
Abstract The focus is on iterative and parallel solvers, the parallel programming models MPI and OpenMP, and the parallel middleware PETSc. Thereby, 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) and the shared memory directives of OpenMP. This course is organized by HLRS, IAG, and Uni. Kassel.
Agenda see link to Official Course-Page and detailed program
Language German
Teachers Prof. Dr. Andreas Meister from Uni. Kassel, Prof. Dr. Bernd Fischer from Uni. Lübeck, and Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner, Dr. Matthias Müller, Uwe Küster, Panagiotis Adamidis from HLRS
Registration via online registration on the Official Course-Page or directly via online registration form
Deadline for registration is Feb. 8, 2004
Fee Students without Diploma: 30 EUR
Students with Diploma (PhD students): 60 EUR
Members of German universities and public research institutes: 60 EUR
others: 150 EUR
(includes food and drink at coffee breaks, will be collected on the first day of the course, cash only)
Prerequisites Monday+Thursday: Basics of linear algebra
Tuesday-Friday: Unix / C or Fortran
Course C Location HLRS, Rechenzentrum Universität Stuttgart (RUS), Allmandring 30, D-70550 Stuttgart
Date 2004, Monday Mar. 15, 9:00 - Friday Mar. 19, 12:00
Content Advanced Topics in High Performance Computing and Parallel Programming

Monday: Advanced topics in Fortran and Vectorization
Tuesday: Vectorization, Parallelization and Performance Optimization
(especially on new HLRS platforms)
Wednesday: MPI-2 and MPI Performance Optimization
Thursday: MPI - Advanced topics in parallel programming
Friday: OpenMP - Advanced topics in parallel programming

Each day can be booked separately, and any combination of days can be booked
Abstract The focus is on vectorization (Mon), optimization on new HLRS platforms (Tue), MPI-2 and MPI Performance Optimization (Wed), advanced topics in parallel programming with MPI (Thu), and advanced topics in shared memory parallelization with OpenMP (Fri). Hands-on sessions (in C and Fortran) will allow users to immediately test and understand the constructs.

The Tuesday is dedicated to the new NEC platforms at HLRS. Here the abstract from NEC for this special day of the course:
Ziel des Kurses ist es, den Teilnehmern die Möglichkeiten der jetzt kommenden SX-6 Installation am HLRS sowie der 2005 kommenden Multiteraflop Installation aufzuzeigen, und Ihnen das Rüstzeug zu geben, Cluster aus Shared Memory Vektor Rechnern in effizienter Art und Weise zu nutzen. Die Konfiguration der Installation wird ebenso abgedeckt wie Grundzüge der Vektorisierung. Für erfahrene SX-5 Benutzer wird auf die Unterschiede von SX-5 und SX-6 eingegangen. Für erfahrene Vektorrechner Nutzer sind die SX spezifischen Methoden zur Performance Messung und Analyse sowie die Bedienung der Compiler und des Systems insbesondere für parallele Programme von Interesse.

Seperate registration of individual days is possiple.
Agenda see link to agenda
Language German
Teachers Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner, Panagiotis Adamidis, Uwe Küster, Peggy Lindner, Rainer Keller, Dr. Matthias Müller, Dr. Heinz Pöhlmann, Uwe Wössner from HLRS, and Holger Berger, Thomas Schoenemeyer from NEC
Registration via online registration form
Deadline for registration is Mar. 4, 2004 (extended deadline due to new NEC-day on Tuesday)
Fee Members of German universities and public research institutes: none,
others: 150 EUR (includes food and drink at coffee breaks, will be collected on the first day of the course, cash only)
Prerequisites
  • Monday: Fortran
  • Tuesday: Programming experience
  • Wednesday: MPI-1 (e.g., course B, Tuesday+Wednesday morning)
  • Thursday: MPI-1 (e.g., course B, Tuesday+Wednesday morning)
  • Friday: OpenMP (e.g., course B, Wednesday afternoon)
Course D Location HLRS, Rechenzentrum Universität Stuttgart (RUS), Allmandring 30, D-70550 Stuttgart
Date 2004, Monday Mar. 29, 8:30 - Friday Apr. 2, 16:30
Content Introduction to Computational Fluids Dynamics
Abstract Numerical methods to solve the equations of Fluid Dynamics are presented. The main focus is on explicit Finite Volume schemes for the compressible Euler equations. Hands-on sessions will manifest the content of the lectures. Participants will learn to implement the algorithms, but also to apply commercial software and to interpret the solutions correctly. Methods and problems of parallelization are discussed. This course is organized by HLRS, IAG, and Uni. Kassel, and is based on a computational practical awarded with the "Landeslehrpreis Baden-Württemberg 2003" (held at Uni. Stuttgart, under auspices of the BMBF project NUSS, contract 08NM227).
Agenda see link to Official Course-Page and detailed program
Language German
Teachers Prof. Dr. Claus-Dieter Munz (IAG), Sabine Roller (HLRS), Michael Dumbser (IAG), Prof. Dr. Andreas Meister (Uni. Kassel), and Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner (HLRS).
Registration via online registration on the Official Course-Page or directly via via online registration form
Deadline for registration is Mar. 7, 2004
Fee Members of German universities and public research institutes: none,
others: 150 EUR (includes food and drink at coffee breaks, will be collected on the first day of the course, cash only)
Prerequisites Basics of partial differential equations and physics, (C or) Fortran
Course A+ Location ZHR, Zellescher Weg 12, Willers-Bau A 220, D-01062 Dresden -> travel-info,
Date 2004, Wednesday Aug. 04, 9:00 - Friday Aug. 06, 16:30
Content MPI and OpenMP (70% for beginners, 30% advanced)
Abstract The focus is on programming models MPI, OpenMP, and PETSc. Hands-on sessions (in C and Fortran) will allow users to immediately test and understand the basic constructs of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) and the shared memory directives of OpenMP. This course is organized by ZHR in collaboration with HLRS.
Agenda see link to detailed program
Language German
Teachers Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner, from HLRS, and Claudia Schmidt from ZHR
Registration registration form via URZ/ZHR announcement, TU Dresden
Deadline for registration is Jul. 30, 2004 (extended deadline)
Fee none
Prerequisites Unix / C or Fortran
Course E Location Faculty on Mathematics and Informatics, University of Kassel, Heinrich Plett Str. 40, Entrance G, Lecture Room 2404, D-34132 Kassel
Date 2004, Monday Sep. 13, 8:30 - Friday Sep. 17, 15:30
Content Iterative Linear Solvers and Parallelization
Abstract The focus is on iterative and parallel solvers, the parallel programming models MPI and OpenMP, and the parallel middleware PETSc. Thereby, 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) and the shared memory directives of OpenMP. This course is organized by Uni. Kassel, HLRS, and IAG.
Agenda see link to Official Course-Page and detailed program
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 online registration on the Official Course-Page or directly via online registration form
Deadline for registration is Aug. 22, 2004
Fee Students without Diploma: 30 EUR
Students with Diploma (PhD students): 60 EUR
Members of German universities and public research institutes: 60 EUR
others: 150 EUR
(includes food and drink at coffee breaks, will be collected on the first day of the course, cash only)
Prerequisites Monday+Thursday: Basics of linear algebra
Tuesday-Friday: Unix / C or Fortran
Course F Location HLRS, Rechenzentrum Universität Stuttgart (RUS), Allmandring 30, D-70550 Stuttgart
Date 2004, Monday Oct. 11, 8:30 - Friday Oct. 15, 16:30
Content MPI and OpenMP for beginners (50%) and advanced topics in parallel programming (50%)
Abstract The focus is on programming models MPI and OpenMP, domain decomposition, parallelization with PETSc, and optimization. Hands-on sessions (in C and Fortran) will allow users to immediately test and understand the basic constructs of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) and the shared memory directives of OpenMP. Course language is ENGLISH (if required).
Agenda see link to detailed program
Language English, if required
Teachers Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner, Panagiotis Adamidis, Uwe Küster, Peggy Lindner, Rainer Keller, Dr. Matthias Müller, Dr. Heinz Pöhlmann, Uwe Wössner
Registration via online registration form
Deadline for registration is Sep. 12, 2004
Fee Members of German universities and public research institutes: none,
others: 150 EUR (includes food and drink at coffee breaks, will be collected on the first day of the course, cash only)
Prerequisites Unix / C or Fortran
Course G Location NIC, Forschungszentrum Jülich, entrance E1 of ZAM, D-52425 Jülich
Date 2004, Monday Nov. 29, 9:00 - Wednesday Dec. 1, 16:30
Content MPI and OpenMP (70% for beginners, 30% advanced)
Abstract The focus is on programming models MPI, OpenMP, and PETSc. Hands-on sessions (in C and Fortran) will allow users to immediately test and understand the basic constructs of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) and the shared memory directives of OpenMP. This course is organized by NIC/ZAM in collaboration with HLRS.
Agenda see link to detailed program
Language German
Teacher Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner, from HLRS
Registration The course is absolutely full. There is an additional course Jan. 17-19, 2005, which is also nearly full. Registration for the course in Jan. 2005 must be done still via registration for this course 2004 G. You will be automatically moved to the course in Jan. 2005. Registration must be done via the online form. If you are not from the FZ Jülich, it would be preferable if you can register for the course 2005 A in Dresden (with same content).
Deadline for registration is Nov. 12, 2004
Fee Members of German universities and public research institutes: none,
others: 150 EUR (includes food and drink at coffee breaks, will be collected on the first day of the course, cash only)
Prerequisites Unix / C or Fortran
Registration online forms for course A in Dresden, courses B-F: via online registration form (Stuttgart & Kassel) (or course B: via Official Course-Page)
Registration
deadline
Deadline is 4 weeks before the beginning of each course, late registration after the deadline is possible, but not recommended, because printing of the handouts starts at this deadline.
Cancelation policy If you cannot come to the course, please send an email to the organizer as soon as possible. This would allow us to accept additional participants from the waiting-list. There is no cancelation fee.
Limit maximum of 42 participants in each course
Travel-Info (see below)
Hotel Reservation to be done directly at the hotel or via the tourist-agency, see Travel-Info below.
Handouts Each participant will get a paper copy of all slides.
Most material of the course (including the audio information) can also be viewed in the ONLINE Parallel Programming Workshop.



Contact
Responsible for the course and local organizer in Stuttgart:

Rolf Rabenseifner
Phone: 0711 685 5530
E-mail: rabenseifner@hlrs.de

Local organizer in Dresden: Claudia Schmidt, phone 0351 463 34274, schmidt@zhr.tu-dresden.de
Local organizer in Jülich: Norbert Attig, phone 02461 61 4416, sc.zam@fz-juelich.de
Local organizer in Kassel: Prof. Dr. Andreas Meister, phone 0561 804-4631 meister@mathematik.uni-kassel.de


Travel-Info
and Accomodation:

Stuttgart
See HLRS-travel-info, The next railway stations are: "Stuttgart Uni" (S-Bahn station, 20 min on foot) and "Lauchhau, Stuttgart" (Bus station, 4 min on foot to HLRS, bus lines 84, 92, 746, 747, 748, but not 82! from S-Bahn station "Stuttgart Uni" and bus line 81 from S-Bahn station "Stuttgart-Vaihingen").
Accomodation: see travel-info and hotels. Private Bed&Breakfast is also available (my be cheaper than the hotels), see, e.g., www.night-and-day.de. A youth hostel is also available.
See also campus map (HLRS, see Rechenzentrum Universität Stuttgart on the map), or Stuttgart city map, or city map service.

Dresden
See ZHR-travel-info. The next bus station is "Fritz-Foerster-Platz, Dresden" (4 min on foot).
Accomodation: Close to the ZHR (15 min on foot) you find the guest house "Gästehaus Am Weberplatz" of the Dresden University of Technology, early reservation is recommended. The next bus station is "Weberplatz, Dresden" (map).

Jülich
How to get to the Forschungszentrum Jülich and then, how to get to the ZAM. The next railway station is named "Jülich Forschungszentrum". [Bitte fragen Sie den Zugführer, dass er die Fahrbereitschaft des Forschungszentrums verständigt. Dann werden Sie in "Jülich Süd" abgeholt. Pass oder Personalausweis sind an der Pforte erforderlich.]
Accomodation: Official hotel list of Jülich, a bus shuttle will be organized between NIC and Hotel "Am Hexenturm" (picture) in the evening and morning, other destinations on inquiry at local organizer.

Kassel
See Anreise/Hotel of the Faculty on Mathematics and Informatics, University of Kassel.

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