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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, computational fluid dynamics, 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 fall 2007 are given with different focus and locations:

Course CSCS: Aug. 8-10, Manno (CH), CSCS MPI and OpenMP (in English)
Course E: Sep. 17-21 Garching, LRZ Iterative Linear Solvers and Parallelization
(in German)
Course F-a: Oct. 8-9, Stuttgart, HLRS Message Passing Interface (MPI) for beginners
(in English if required)
Course F-b: Oct. 10, Stuttgart, HLRS Shared memory parallelization with OpenMP
(in English if required)
Course F-c: Oct. 11-12, Stuttgart, HLRS Advanced topics in parallel programming
(in English if required)
Course G: Oct. 15-19, Stuttgart, HLRS Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics
(in German)
Course H: Nov. 26-28, 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.
Sequential programming with Fortran, C and C++ in scientific computing, see here
Workshops on CFD packages.


Language

The course language is German (except the course Oct. 8-12 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 ZIH Kassel IAG EPCC NIC Luebeck LRZ Transregio 30


Course CSCS Location CSCS, Galleria 2, Via Cantonale, CH-6928 Manno (near Lugano) -> travel-info,
Date 2007, Wednesday Aug. 8, 8:30 - Friday Aug. 10, 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 CSCS in collaboration with HLRS.
Agenda see link to Official Course-Page and detailed program
Language English
Teachers Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner, from HLRS, and Neil Stringfellow from CSCS
Registration registration form via CSCS course page
Deadline for registration is Jul. 8, 2007
Fee Employees/students from Swiss educational institutions: free;
Employees/students from non-Swiss educational institutions: CHF 150;
Employees from industry: CHF 1500.
A bill will be sent for the registration fee prior to the course if applicable.
Prerequisites Unix / C or Fortran
Travel-Info
Manno (CH)
see Official Course-Page at CSCS and CSCS travel-info, or CSCS -> About us -> Finding us
Local Organizer Ladina Gilly
Pictures from 2007CSCS while practicals - at CSCS, Aug 8, 2007 while practicals - at CSCS, Aug 8, 2007 while practicals - at CSCS, Aug 8, 2007
Course E Location LRZ (Leibniz-Rechenzentrum), Neues LRZ Gebäude in Garching, Boltzmannstrasse 1, 85748 Garching
Date 2007, Monday Sep. 17, 8:30 - Friday Sep. 21, 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 or Course-Page at LRZ 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 Sep. 2, 2007 (extended deadline)
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: 150 EUR
(includes food and drink at coffee breaks, will be collected on the first day of the course, cash only)
Prerequisites Wednesday+Thursday+Friday: Basics of linear algebra
Monday+Tuesday+Friday: Unix / C or Fortran
Flyer A printable summary of most relevant information can be found in the Flyer
Travel-Info
Garching
The course will be in the new building in Garching, see LRZ-travel-info. Hotels siehe hier. Bitte direkt beim Hotel frühzeitig buchen (wegen gleichzeitiger Messen in München).
Local Organizer Matthias Brehm, phone 089 289 28773, brehm@lrz.de
Pictures from 2007E while practicals - at LRZ, Sep 17, 2007 while practicals - at LRZ, Sep 17, 2007 Lecturer: Rolf Rabenseifner - at LRZ, Sep 18, 2007 Lecturer: Andreas Meister - at LRZ, Sep 19, 2007 Lecturer: Bernd Fischer - at LRZ, Sep 20, 2007
Course F-a Location Großer Seminarraum, HLRS (Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart), Universität Stuttgart, Allmandring 30, D-70550 Stuttgart
Date 2007, Monday Oct. 8, 8:30 - Tuesday Oct. 9, 17:30
Content Distributed memory parallelization with the Message Passing Interface MPI (for beginners)
Abstract On clusters and distributed memory architectures, parallel programming with the Message Passing Interface (MPI) is the dominating programming model. The course gives an full introduction into MPI-1. Further aspects are domain decomposition, load balancing, and debugging. An MPI-2 overview and the MPI-2 one-sided communication is also taught. Hands-on sessions (in C and Fortran) will allow users to immediately test and understand the basic constructs of the Message Passing Interface (MPI). Course language is ENGLISH (if required). This course is the first part (MPI for beginners) of a 5-day course program and may be booked together with the other parts F-b (OpenMP) and F-c (advanced topics).
Agenda see link to detailed program Course F-a or Monday+Tuesday in the total program Course F-a+b+c
Language English (if required)
Teachers Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner, Rainer Keller, Bettina Krammer,
Registration Registration is closed (deadline is over and the course is full).
Deadline for registration is Sep. 23, 2007 (extended deadline)
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
Flyer A printable summary of most relevant information can be found in the Flyer
Travel-Info
Stuttgart
See HLRS-travel-info. The next railway stations are: "Universität, Stuttgart" (S-Bahn station, 15 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 "Universität, Stuttgart" and bus line 81 from S-Bahn station "Stuttgart-Vaihingen").
Accomodation: see also additional hotel list and HLRS-travel-info. 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 HLRS, Allmandring 30, nearby crossroads Allmandring x Nobelstr., at coordinates 25.G on Stuttgart city map HLRS and University Campus or HLRS and Stuttgart-Vaihingen (or you can use www.city-map.de).
Local Organizer Rolf Rabenseifner phone 0711 685 65530, rabenseifner@hlrs.de
Course F-b Location Großer Seminarraum, HLRS (Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart), Universität Stuttgart, Allmandring 30, D-70550 Stuttgart
Date 2007, Wednesday Oct. 10, 8:30 - 17:30 (registration opens at 8:15)
Content Shared memory parallelization with OpenMP (for beginners)
Abstract The focus is on shared memory parallelization with OpenMP, the key concept on hyper-threading, dual-core, multi-core, shared memory, and ccNUMA platforms. This course teaches shared memory OpenMP parallelization. Hands-on sessions (in C and Fortran) will allow users to immediately test and understand the directives and other interfaces of OpenMP. Tools for performance tuning and debugging are presented. Course language is ENGLISH (if required). This course is the second part (OpenMP for beginners) of a 5-day course program and may be booked together with the other parts F-a (MPI for beginners) and F-c (advanced topics).
Agenda see link to detailed program Course F-b or Wednesday in the total program Course F-a+b+c
Language English (if required)
Teachers Rainer Keller, Bettina Krammer, Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner,
Registration Registration is closed (deadline is over and the course is full).
Deadline for registration is Sep. 23, 2007 (extended deadline)
Fee Members of German universities and public research institutes: none,
others: Included in fee of 2007-F-a, if booked together with 2007-F-a, otherwise: 150 EUR (includes food and drink at coffee breaks, will be collected on the first day of your course, cash only)
Prerequisites Unix / C or Fortran
Flyer A printable summary of most relevant information can be found in the Flyer
Travel-Info
Stuttgart
See HLRS-travel-info. The next railway stations are: "Universität, Stuttgart" (S-Bahn station, 15 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 "Universität, Stuttgart" and bus line 81 from S-Bahn station "Stuttgart-Vaihingen").
Accomodation: see also additional hotel list and HLRS-travel-info. 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 HLRS, Allmandring 30, nearby crossroads Allmandring x Nobelstr., at coordinates 25.G on Stuttgart city map HLRS and University Campus or HLRS and Stuttgart-Vaihingen (or you can use www.city-map.de).
Local Organizer Rolf Rabenseifner phone 0711 685 65530, rabenseifner@hlrs.de
Course F-c Location Großer Seminarraum, HLRS (Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart), Universität Stuttgart, Allmandring 30, D-70550 Stuttgart
Date 2007, Thursday Oct. 11, 8:30 - Friday Oct. 12, 16:30 (registration opens at 8:15)
Content Advanced topics in parallel programming
Abstract Topics are MPI-2 parallel file I/O, hybrid mixed model MPI+OpenMP parallelization, OpenMP on clusters, parallelization of explicit and implicit solvers and of particle based applications, parallel numerics and libraries, and parallelization with PETSc. Hands-on sessions are included. Course language is ENGLISH (if required). This course is the third part (advanced topics) of a 5-day course program and may be booked together with the other parts F-a (MPI for beginners) and F-b (OpenMP for beginners).
Agenda see link to detailed program Course F-c or Thursday+Friday in the total program Course F-a+b+c
Language English (if required)
Teachers Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner, Uwe Küster, Rainer Keller, Katharina Benkert, Uwe Wössner
Registration Registration is closed (deadline is over and the course is full).
Deadline for registration is Sep. 23, 2007 (extended deadline)
Fee Members of German universities and public research institutes: none,
others: Included in fee of 2007-F-a or F-b, if booked together with 2007-F-a or F-b, otherwise: 150 EUR (includes food and drink at coffee breaks, will be collected on the first day of your course, cash only)
Prerequisites Unix / C or Fortran
Flyer A printable summary of most relevant information can be found in the Flyer
Travel-Info
Stuttgart
See HLRS-travel-info. The next railway stations are: "Universität, Stuttgart" (S-Bahn station, 15 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 "Universität, Stuttgart" and bus line 81 from S-Bahn station "Stuttgart-Vaihingen").
Accomodation: see also additional hotel list and HLRS-travel-info. 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 HLRS, Allmandring 30, nearby crossroads Allmandring x Nobelstr., at coordinates 25.G on Stuttgart city map HLRS and University Campus or HLRS and Stuttgart-Vaihingen (or you can use www.city-map.de).
Local Organizer Rolf Rabenseifner phone 0711 685 65530, rabenseifner@hlrs.de
Pictures from 2007F Lecturer: Rolf Rabenseifner - at HLRS, Oct 11, 2007 while practicals - at HLRS, Oct 11, 2007 while practicals - at HLRS, Oct 11, 2007 while practicals - at HLRS, Oct 11, 2007 while practicals - at HLRS, Oct 11, 2007 while practicals - at HLRS, Oct 11, 2007 while practicals - at HLRS, Oct 11, 2007 while practicals - at HLRS, Oct 11, 2007 while practicals - at HLRS, Oct 11, 2007 while practicals - at HLRS, Oct 11, 2007 while practicals - at HLRS, Oct 11, 2007 Lecturer: Sunil Tiyyagura - at HLRS, Oct 11, 2007 computing systems - at HLRS, Oct 11, 2007 cables & cooling - at HLRS, Oct 11, 2007 at visualization department - at HLRS, Oct 11, 2007 while a short celebration of '10 years HLRS Parallel Programming Workshops' - at HLRS, Oct 12, 2007 while a short celebration of '10 years HLRS Parallel Programming Workshops' - at HLRS, Oct 12, 2007
Course G Location Medienlabor, HLRS (Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart), Universität Stuttgart, Nobelstr. 19, D-70550 Stuttgart
Date 2007, Monday Oct. 15, 10:00 - Friday Oct. 19, 15:30
Content Introduction to Computational Fluids Dynamics
Abstract The course deals with current numerical methods for Computational Fluid Dynamics. The emphasis is placed on explicit finite volume methods for the compressible Euler equations. Moreover outlooks on implicit methods, the extension to the Navier-Stokes equations and turbulence modelling are given. Additional topics are classical numerical methods for the solution of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, Aeracoustics and high order numerical methods for the solution of systems of partial differential equations. The last day is dedicated to parallelization of explicit and implicit solvers.
Hands-on sessions will manifest the contents of the lectures. The emphasis of these session is put on the application of CFD codes, especially on grid generation, visualization and the interpretation of results. Furthermore the implementation of algorithms presented in the lectures points up the general structure of CFD codes.
The course is organized by the HLRS, the IAG and the University of Kassel. It is based on the course "Numerical Gasdynamics" held at the IAG which has been awarded the "Landeslehrpreis (prize for excellence in teaching) 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), Dr.-Ing. Sabine Roller (HLRS), Mark Haas (IAG), Prof. Dr. Andreas Meister (Uni. Kassel), and Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner (HLRS).
Registration Registration is closed (because the course is full).
Deadline for registration is Sep. 26, 2007 (extended deadline)
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: 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, programming experience in Fortran or C
Flyer A printable summary of most relevant information can be found in the Flyer
Travel-Info
Stuttgart
See HLRS-travel-info. The next railway stations are: "Universität, Stuttgart" (S-Bahn station, 15 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 "Universität, Stuttgart" and bus line 81 from S-Bahn station "Stuttgart-Vaihingen").
Accomodation: see also additional hotel list and HLRS-travel-info. 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 HLRS, Allmandring 30, nearby crossroads Allmandring x Nobelstr., at coordinates 25.G on Stuttgart city map HLRS and University Campus or HLRS and Stuttgart-Vaihingen (or you can use www.city-map.de).
Local Organizer Rolf Rabenseifner phone 0711 685 65530, rabenseifner@hlrs.de, and Sabine Roller phone 0711 685 65734, roller@hlrs.de,
Pictures from 2007G Lecturers: Sabine Roller and Mark Haas - at HLRS, Oct 15, 2007 Lecturer: Mark Haas - at HLRS, Oct 15, 2007 while practicals - at HLRS, Oct 16, 2007 while practicals - at HLRS, Oct 16, 2007 while practicals - at HLRS, Oct 16, 2007 while practicals - at HLRS, Oct 16, 2007 while practicals - at HLRS, Oct 16, 2007 while practicals - at HLRS, Oct 16, 2007 Lecturer: Claus-Dieter Munz - at HLRS, Oct 17, 2007 Lecturer: Claus-Dieter Munz - at HLRS, Oct 17, 2007 Lecturer: Sabine Roller and Andreas Meister - at HLRS, Oct 19, 2007 Lecturer: Andreas Meister - at HLRS, Oct 19, 2007 Lecturer: Andreas Meister - at HLRS, Oct 19, 2007
Course H Location NIC, Forschungszentrum Jülich, entrance E1 of ZAM, D-52425 Jülich
Date 2007, Monday Nov. 26, 9:00 - Wednesday Nov. 28, 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 Registration is closed (because the course is full).
You may choose a course in 2008.
Deadline for registration is Oct. 28, 2007
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
Travel-Info
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 Stadhotel Jülich (if you book at the Stadthotel, you should mention that you book for a course at NIC) in the evening and morning, other destinations on inquiry at local organizer. To find your hotel, you can use www.city-map.de.
Local Organizer Norbert Attig, phone 02461 61 4416, sc.zam@fz-juelich.de
Pictures from 2007H Lecturer: Rolf Rabenseifner - at JSC, Nov 28, 2007 while practicals - at JSC, Nov 27, 2007 while practicals - at JSC, Nov 27, 2007 JUGENE - BlueGene/P, 223 TFlops peak, 65536 CPUs - at JSC, Nov 26, 2007 JUBL - BlueGene/L with Norbert Attig - at JSC, Nov 26, 2007 JUBL - BlueGene/L with Norbert Attig - at JSC, Nov 26, 2007 at High Performance Switch of JUMP - at JSC, Nov 26, 2007 at High Performance Switch of JUMP - at JSC, Nov 26, 2007 after a hard day, relaxation at Juelich Christmas Market  - at JSC, Nov 26, 2007
Registration online forms for course A in Dresden, courses B-F: via online registration form (Stuttgart, Kassel, Garching, Jülich) (or via Official Course-Page: Course B, C, E, G), course at CSCS: via Official Course-Page at CSCS
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 Stuttgart and Kassel, 35 in Dresden and Manno, 26 in Jülich (according to the seats in the rooms).
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.
The MPI-1 part of the course is based on the MPI course developed by the EPCC Training and Education Centre, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre.
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 65530
E-mail: rabenseifner@hlrs.de

Local organizer in Jülich: Norbert Attig, phone 02461 61 4416, sc.zam@fz-juelich.de
Local organizer in Garching: Matthias Brehm, phone 089 289 28773, brehm@lrz.de
Local organizer in Manno: Ladina Gilly


Travel-Info
and Accomodation:

Stuttgart
See HLRS-travel-info. The next railway stations are: "Universität, Stuttgart" (S-Bahn station, 15 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 "Universität, Stuttgart" and bus line 81 from S-Bahn station "Stuttgart-Vaihingen").
Accomodation: see also additional hotel list and HLRS-travel-info. 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 HLRS, Allmandring 30, nearby crossroads Allmandring x Nobelstr., at coordinates 25.G on Stuttgart city map HLRS and University Campus or HLRS and Stuttgart-Vaihingen (or you can use www.city-map.de).

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 Stadhotel Jülich (if you book at the Stadthotel, you should mention that you book for a course at NIC) in the evening and morning, other destinations on inquiry at local organizer. To find your hotel, you can use www.city-map.de.

Garching/München
The course will be in the new building in Garching, see LRZ-travel-info. Hotels siehe hier. Bitte direkt beim Hotel frühzeitig buchen (wegen gleichzeitiger Messen in München).


Manno
see Official Course-Page at CSCS and CSCS travel-info, or CSCS -> About us -> Finding us

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