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Course UPC/CAF
HLRS
Location Großer Seminarraum (big seminar-room), HLRS (Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart), Universität Stuttgart, Allmandring 30, D-70550 Stuttgart
Date 2008, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008, 8:30 - 17:00
Content Introduction to Unified Parallel C (UPC) and Co-array Fortran (CAF)
New course in 2008!
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.
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)
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.
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)
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
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).
Local Organizer Rolf Rabenseifner phone 0711 685 65530, rabenseifner@hlrs.de,
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).
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.



Contact
Organizer of the HLRS courses:

Rolf Rabenseifner
Phone: 0711 685 65530
E-mail: rabenseifner@hlrs.de

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