Joint HP-SEE, LinkSCEEM-2 and PRACE HPC Summer Training

13 Jul 2011, 08:00 → 15 Jul 2011, 18:30 Europe/Athens

Center of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE Academy), Athens, Greece

The Joint HPC training organized by HP-SEE, LinkSCEEM-2 and PRACE, will gather scientists from the wide spectrum of fields this July in Athens, Greece.

The training  aims to enhance the knowledge of current HPC users, and to engage new user communities in the use of HPC infrastructure. It will take place from 13th to 15th of July 2011 at the training Center of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE Academy) in Athens, Greece.

The content consists of lectures and hands-on sessions in the field of HPC usage for multi-disciplinary scientific research communities with the focus on parallel programming methods, performance analysis tools and code optimization. The lectures will be given by accredited PRACE, HP-SEE and LinkSCEEM trainers and experts in the HPC field.

Registration

Registration is open until 01 June 2011.

The registration form is available here.

Important Note: Participants affiliated to the LinkSceem2 project must register via the dedicated registration form available here.

It is recommended that participants bring their own laptops for the hands-on sessions since training facilities does not provide PCs. Participants are also encouraged to work in teams of two.

The school can host up to 60 participants. Selection of participants will be based on their qualifications as declared in the registration form while extra care will be given so that participants from the regions of South Eastern Europe and Mediterranean countries that organise the school have the opportunity to attend the school.

Notification of acceptance to the training will be given to students no later than the 10th of June 2011.

Programme

The training programme is under development by the event's programme committee.

The main subjects to be covered in the training sessions are advanced modules in:

• MPI, OpenMP, Hybrid Programming
• CUDA Programming
• Profiling
• Optimization and Benchmarking

Logistics and Details

Venue:
The Joint HP-SEE, LinkSCEEM-2 and PRACE training will take place at OTE Academy, the training Center of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization.

Address:
OTE Academy
Pelika & Spartis 1, 15125 Marousi (Psalidi area)
Tel: +30 210 6114430 - Fax: +30 210 6114420

More Information http://www.hp-see.eu/athens-summer-hpc-training-july-2011

Wednesday, 13 July

09:15 → 13:00 LinkSCEEM-2 session

open to all parties

09:15 Welcome address

High-Performance Computing: Regional Developments and Future Opportunities Professor Dimitris Drikakis is the Founding Director of the Computation-based Science and Technology Research Centre (CaSToRC) of The Cyprus Institute, which is being developed in close partnership with the USA National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has also been Professor of Fluid Mechanics and Computational Science and Head of Department at Cranfield University (UK) and Professor of Fluid Mechanics at Queen Mary College, University of London, UK (1999-2003). His expertise in computational science and engineering covers a broad range of applications in the fields of fluid dynamics, materials and heat transfer. In 2008, he was awarded the William Penney Fellowship by AWE (United Kingdom) for his contributions to compressible fluid dynamics and scientific computing. Professor Drikakis has served on several international scientific committees; is an associate editor of the ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, the Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, and The Aeronautical Journal; a member of the Fluid Dynamics Committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA); and a Chairman of the International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing; a Fellow of the Institute of Nanotechnology; and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

Speaker: Prof. Dimitris Drikakis

09:45 LinkSCEEM-II project presentation

Speaker: Dr Alan O'Cais

Slides LinkSCEEM-2.pdf

10:15 HPC user support within LinkSCEEM-2 project

Speaker: Fotis Georgatos

Slides 20110713_LinkSCEEM.pdf

10:30 Biblioteca Alexandrina HPC site

Speaker: Mohamed Adel

Slides tech-talk.pdf

10:45 Coffee break

11:00 Presentations of users & activities

Speaker: all hands

12:00 Lunch break

13:00 → 13:15 Opening, Logistics and Programme

13:15 → 14:15 Message Passing Interface (MPI)

Presentation

Mr. Paschalis Korosoglou is coordinating the User and Application support activities at the Scientific Computing Center of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Mr. Korosoglou has had several years of experience on parallel programming using the MPI protocol and the OpenMP API. Within the PRACE and PRACE-1IP projects he has contributed to the scaling and benchmarking of several scientific applications on the Jugene, Huygens, Juropa and CEA Bull supercomputing platforms. He has participated in several major national and European FP6 and FP7 ICT projects such as HellasGrid, HellasHPC, EGEE (phases 2 and 3), SEE-GRID-II, SEE-GRID-SCI, EUChinaGrid, EGI-InSPIRE, PRACE and PRACE-1IP.

Slides HP-SEE-SS_2011.pptx

14:15 → 15:15 Shared Memory Parallelism (OpenMP)

Presentations

Slides HP-SEE-SS_2011-OpenMP.pptx

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 → 16:45 Hybrid (MPI + OpenMP) programming

Presentation

Dr. Antun Balaz is an Associate Research Professor at the Institute of Physics Belgrade. His research interests are related to the functional formalism in quantum theory and its application to studies of ultra-cold quantum gases, including the phenomenon of Bose-Einstein condensation and effects of interaction and disorder. In his research, he makes extensive use of numerical methods such as Path Integral Monte Carlo and exact diagonalization. Dr. Antun Balaz is technical coordinator of Academic and Educational Grid Initiative of Serbia (AEGIS), and technical director-designate of the Blue Danube National Supercomputing Center. Dr. Balaz was Grid operations leader in SEE-GRID-2 and SEE-GRID-SCI projects, and currently coordinates Serbian participation in EGI and PRACE initiatives.

Slides HPSEE-WP3-RS-019-Hybrid_MPI_OpenMP-a-2011.pdf HPSEE-WP3-RS-019-Hybrid_MPI_OpenMP-a-2011.ppt

16:45 → 17:15 Evaluation and Benchmarking of highly scalable parallel numerical libraries

Presentation

Dr. Christos Theodosiou is a member of the Scientific Computing Center of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki since 2009. Dr. Theodosiou has had several years of experience on numerical analysis calculations, numerical libraries and parallel programming using the MPI library. His Ph.d. thesis resides on the field of computational structural mechanics. He has participated in several FP6 and FP7 projects such as HellasGrid, HellasHPC, EGEE3, SEE-GRID, EGI-InSPIRE, PRACE and PRACE-1IP.

Slides parallel_libraries_2011.ppt

17:15 → 18:00 Introduction to the IBM Blue Gene

Presentation

Emanouil Atanassov is Assoc. Prof. at Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Ph.D. thesis: “Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo methods for numerical integration with improved rate of convergence”. Interests include Parallel algorithms, High Performance Computing, Grid Computing, Monte Carlo methods. Special prize in the International Mathematical Olympiad, Canberra, Australia, 1988.

Slides Introuduction to IBM BlueGene - Hands-On session Introuduction to IBM BlueGene - Presentation

18:00 → 18:15 Day 1 Closing Remarks

Thursday, 14 July

08:30 → 10:30 Hybrid (MPI + OpenMP) programming

Hands On

Examples hybrid-mpi-openmp-hands-on.tar.gz

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Hybrid (MPI + OpenMP) programming

Hands On

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 → 15:00 CUDA Programming

Presentation

Massimo Bernaschi has been 10 years with IBM working in the field of parallel
and distributed computing. Currently he is with the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) as Chief Technology Officer of the Institute for Computing Applications. He is also an adjunct professor of Computer Science in "La Sapienza" University in Rome.

Slides CUDA Programming Presentation

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 18:00 CUDA Programming

Hands On

Examples CUDA Programming Hands-On Session

18:00 → 18:15 Day 2 Closing Remarks

Friday, 15 July

09:00 → 10:00 WS-PGRADE/gUSE

Presentation

Dr. Miklos KOZLOVSZKY is working as Senior Research Fellow at the Laboratory of the Parallel and Distributed Systems in the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, beside that he is an Associate Professor at Obuda University (Hungary), leading there the Biotech Group at John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics. He received his PhD from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary) in 2009, and his MSc in Computer Science from the University of Szeged (Hungary) in 2001. He was a part-time lecturer at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary) from 2005-2009. Before that, he was working: as researcher in the Bioinformatics Group at IMP /Research Institute of Molecular Pathology/ (Austria), at CERN /European Organization for Nuclear Research/ (Switzerland), and as team leader of the Value Added Services at Vodafone Hungary.

Slides WS-PGRADE_gUSE_training_x.ppt

10:00 → 11:30 Profiling

Presentation

Dr. Alan O'Cais has been active in the field of computational research and high performance computing since receiving his bachelors degree in Theoretical Physics from Trinity College Dublin in 2001. He received a Masters Degree in High Performance Computing in 2002 and a PhD in Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics in 2005, both from Trinity College. He has held research positions at Trinity College and the University of Adelaide. In 2008 he joined the Cyprus Institute as Scientific Coordinator and in 2010 moved to Juelich Supercomputing Centre where he works within the Application Support division. His work is primarily focussed within the LinkSCEEM-2 project helping to develop a Virtual Research Community in Computational Science in the Eastern Mediterranean region.

Christian Rössel has been active in the field of computer simulation and performance analysis since his time as a student at Cologne University from where he received his Diploma in Physics in 2004. After a year working as a consultant and software engineer for the Münster University of Applied Sciences he moved to PTV AG in Karlsruhe where he joint the traffic simulation development team. From 2009 on he works as a scientific staff member at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre, reinforcing the Helmholtz-University Young Investigators Group "Performance Analysis of Parallel Programs". His work is primarily focused within the SILC project developing the next generation measurement system for the performance analysis tools Scalasca, Vampir, TAU and Periscope.

Slides 2011-07-15_Application-Performance-Analysis_Athens.pdf 2011-07-15_BT-Intro.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 → 13:30 Profiling

Hands On

Slides 2011-07-15_BT-Tutorial-Scalasca.pdf

13:30 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 16:00 Optimisation and Benchmarking

Presentation

Chris joined Intel in 2005, previously working in ERP and academic HPC. Chris holds the position of a senior engineer in the HPC and Throughput Computing team of Intel’s Software and Services Group (SSG) in EMEA. Chris focuses on Oil & Gas and scientific algorithms as well as the development of future Intel CPUs. Chris holds a Diploma and a Doctor degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of Wuerzburg, Germany.

Slides Optimization_and_Benchmarking_-_HP-SEE_-_20110715-1x_(1).pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 18:00 Optimisation and Benchmarking

Hands On

Examples Vectorization_Basic_Labs.tar.gz

18:00 → 18:15 Scientific Computing Activities at The Cyprus Institute

Speaker: Prof. Dimitris Drikakis

18:15 → 18:30 Day 3 Closing Remarks