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Course 2012-UPC(1) at HLRS, Stuttgart
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Course UPC/CAF (1)
PRACE PATC Course
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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 |
2012, Thursday, July 5, 8:30 - Friday July 6, 15:30
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Content |
Introduction to Unified Parallel C (UPC) and Co-array Fortran (CAF)
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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.
UPC and CAF are language extensions to C and Fortran.
Parallelism is part of the language.
PGAS languages allow any processor to directly address memory/data on any other
processors.
Parallelism can be expressed more easily compared to library
based approaches as MPI.
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 |
First day:
08:30 Registration
09:00-13:00 Lectures and exercises
14:00-17:00 Lectures and exercises
Second day:
09:00-13:00 Lectures and exercises
14:00-15:30 Lectures and exercises
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Language |
English |
Teacher |
Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner
from
HLRS
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Registration |
via online registration form |
Deadline |
for registration is June 17, 2012 (extended deadline) |
Fee |
Members of German universities and public research institutes: none,
Members of universities and public research institutes within Europe or PRACE: none
Members of other universities and public research institutes: 120 EUR
Others: 400 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 |
PRACE PATC |
HLRS is part of the
Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), which is one of the six
PRACE Advanced Training Centres (PATCs) that started in
Feb. 2012.
The mandate for the PATCs is as follows:
"The PRACE Advanced Training Centres will serve as European hubs of advanced,
world-class training for researchers working in the computational sciences."
(see D3.2.3)
This course is a PATC course, see also the PRACE Training
Portal and
Events.
For participants from public research institutions in PRACE countries,
the course fee is sponsored through the PRACE PATC program.
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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 public transport 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
or www.nd-bed-breakfast.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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Pictures from 2009UPC2 |
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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 and 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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