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Poster
with all HLRS conferences, parallel programming workshops and language courses in Dresden, Jülich, Kassel, Manno, Munich, Stuttgart.
List of all HLRS Parallel Programming Workshops 2008
in Dresden, Jülich, Kassel, Manno, Munich, Stuttgart.
List of all HLRS Fortran and C++ Courses 2008 in Stuttgart.
List of all events, conferences, ... at HLRS.
Courses and events organized by the Gauss Centres for Supercomputing in Germany.
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Course UPC/CAF
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Location |
Großer Seminarraum (big seminar-room),
HLRS (Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart),
Universität Stuttgart,
Allmandring 30,
D-70550 Stuttgart
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Date |
2008, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008, 8:30 - 17:00
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Content |
Introduction to Unified Parallel C (UPC) and Co-array Fortran (CAF)
New course in 2008!
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Abstract |
Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) is a new model for parallel programming.
Unified Parallel C (UPC) and Co-array Fortran (CAF) are PGAS extensions to
C and Fortran.
Because UPC and CAF are language extensions, parallelism is part of the language
and not dependent upon library function calls as is MPI.
Also, since a PGAS language allows any processor to directly address memory/data
on any other processors, complex algorithms can be implemented more quickly
and easily, and this increases developer productivity.
This course gives an introduction to this novel approach of expressing parallelism.
Hands-on sessions (in UPC and/or CAF) will allow users
to immediately test and understand the basic constructs of PGAS languages.
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Agenda |
08:30 Registration
09:00-10:30 Lectures and exercises
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:15 Lectures and exercises
12:15-13:15 Lunch break
13:15-14:45 Lectures and exercises
14:45-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-17:00 Lectures and exercises
(details not yet available)
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Language |
English |
Teacher |
Dr. Andrew A. Johnson
(Digital Rocket Science LLC, USA)
Dr. Johnson is a recognized expert in numerical simulation,
computational methods, and high performance and parallel computing.
He founded Digital Rocket Science LLC in 2007 in order to develop
advanced computational tools for the education, engineering, and scientific markets.
Before this he has served as a Senior Scientist at the Army High Performance Computing Research Center,
and had been with that organization for over a decade.
Using the Unified Parallel C PGAS language, Dr. Johnson has implemented
a unique and novel dynamic-mesh simulation method that can solve complex
fluid-structure interaction applications with moving components and changing
domain shapes. Using this technique, he has studied airdrop systems,
bio-medical, micro-air vehicles, and animal flight applications.
Without the aid of a PGAS language, it would be very difficult (if not impossible)
to study these applications with a dynamic-mesh method.
Dr. Johnson's company is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) and currently
serves customers in the education and government sectors.
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Registration |
via online registration form |
Deadline |
for registration is Sep. 21, 2008 |
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)
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Prerequisites |
Programming experience in Fortran or C, some knowledge about parallel programming |
Links |
Additional information can be found, e.g., at
PGAS (wiki),
CAF (wiki),
UPC (wiki),
UPC Community website,
UPC at Berkley
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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 (might 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
Online-Stadtplan des Stadtmessungsamtes Stuttgart or
www.city-map.de).
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Local Organizer |
Rolf Rabenseifner
phone 0711 685 65530,
rabenseifner@hlrs.de,
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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.
NO-SHOW:
Registered persons that do not cancel or do not show up without any
reasons are blocked for the next year on any of our workshops
(because it is to expensive to produce unused copies of the slides
for them).
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Limit |
maximum of 50 participants in Stuttgart
(according to the seats in the rooms). |
Handouts |
Each participant will get a paper copy of all slides.
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Contact |
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Organizer of the HLRS courses:
Rolf Rabenseifner
Phone: 0711 685 65530
E-mail: rabenseifner@hlrs.de
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