1st Block: Linux and First Steps on the VSC-3 Cluster
Date and Time: October 11, 2018, 14:00 - 18:00
Location: TU Wien, FH Schulungsraum ZID (TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, ground floor, red area)
Lecturers: VSC Team (Claudia Blaas-Schenner, Siegfried Höfinger, Dieter Kvasnicka,
Balazs Lengyel, Irene Reichl, Siegfried Reinwald, Markus Stöhr, Jan Zabloudil)
Details and Registration see: http://vsc.ac.at/training/2018/VSC-Linux-Oct
Abstract:
This Linux command-line course is for users (or soon to be users) of the VSC-3 cluster only. You will learn how to login to VSC-3 and step-by-step we will show you how to work on the Linux command line and a few basic things that will help you to organise your workflows on the cluster. Focusing on hands-on teaching throughout the course, you will immediately try out what you've heard and adapt it to your own needs. After attending this course you are prepared for and might consider to continue with "Introduction to Working on the VSC-3 Cluster" to be able to use the VSC-3 supercomputer and especially its queuing system efficiently.
2nd Block: Introduction to Working on the VSC-3 Cluster
Date and Time: October 17, 2018, 09:00 - 16:00
Location: TU Wien, FH Schulungsraum ZID (TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, ground floor, red area)
Lecturers: VSC Team (Claudia Blaas-Schenner, Siegfried Höfinger, Dieter Kvasnicka,
Balazs Lengyel, Irene Reichl, Siegfried Reinwald, Markus Stöhr, Jan Zabloudil)
Details and Registration see: http://vsc.ac.at/training/2018/VSC-Intro-Oct
Abstract:
In this course we will help you getting started on the VSC-3 cluster, Austria's most powerful supercomputer. With running and developing software on a supercomputer there are many similarities and fewer but crucial differences compared to your desktop PC. Focusing on hands-on teaching throughout the course, you will immediately try out what you've heard and adapt it to your own needs. This lecture is equally relevant to those who will merely be running existing software as to those who will develop scientific codes.
3rd Block: Shared memory parallelization with OpenMP
Date and Time: November 5 -6, 2018, 09:00 - 16:40
Location: TU Wien, FH Internet-Raum FH1 (TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, ground floor, red area)
Lecturers: Lukas Einkemmer (lectures+practicals; Department of Mathematics, University of Innsbruck),
Claudia Blaas-Schenner and Irene Reichl (practicals only; VSC Team, TU Wien)
Details and Registration see: http://vsc.ac.at/training/2018/OpenMP-Nov
Abstract:
The focus of this 2 days course is on shared memory parallelization with OpenMP for dual-core, multi-core, shared memory, and ccNUMA platforms. This course teaches OpenMP starting from a beginners level. Hands-on sessions (in C and Fortran) will allow users to immediately test and understand the OpenMP directives, environment variables, and library routines. Race-condition debugging tools are also presented.
4th Block: Parallelization with MPI
Date and Time: November 7 - 9, 2018, 09:00 - 16:30 (9.11. until 16:00)
Location: TU Wien, FH Internet-Raum FH1 (TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, ground floor, red area)
Lecturers: Claudia Blaas-Schenner and Irene Reichl (VSC Team, TU Wien)
Details and Registration see: http://vsc.ac.at/training/2018/MPI-Nov
Abstract:
On clusters and distributed memory architectures, parallel programming with the Message Passing Interface (MPI) is the dominating programming model. This 3 days course teaches parallel programming with MPI starting from a beginners level. Hands-on sessions (in C and Fortran) will allow users to immediately test and understand the basic constructs of the Message Passing Interface (MPI).
5th Block: Parallel I/O
Date and Time: November 23, 2018 , 08:45 - 17:00
Location: TU Wien, FH Internet-Raum FH1 (TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, ground floor, red area)
Lecturers: Sebastian Lührs (Jülich Supercomputing Centre)
Details and Registration see: http://vsc.ac.at/training/2018/IO
Abstract:
This course will be about parallel I/O with a special focus on portable data formats. It will introduce the use of the HDF5 and NetCDF (NetCDF4 and PnetCDF) library interfaces, and hands-on exercises (in C/C++ or Fortran) will allow to immediately test and understand their usage. Performance hints, optimization potential, and best practices for I/O will be discussed in detail throughout the whole course.
6th Block: Node-Level Performance Engineering
Date and Time: December 5-7, 2018, 09:00 - 17:00
Location: TU Wien, FH Internet-Raum FH1 (TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, ground floor, red area)
Lecturers: Georg Hager and Gerhard Wellein (RRZE / HPC, Uni. Erlangen)
Details and Registration see: http://vsc.ac.at/training/2018/NLPE
Abstract:
This course covers performance engineering approaches on the compute node level. "Performance engineering" as we define it is more than employing tools to identify hotspots and bottlenecks. It is about developing a thorough understanding of the interactions between software and hardware. This process must start at the core, socket, and node level, where the code gets executed that does the actual computational work. Once the architectural requirements of a code are understood and correlated with performance measurements, the potential benefit of optimizations can often be predicted. We introduce a "holistic" node-level performance engineering strategy based on the Roofline model and apply it to different algorithms from computational science. Architectural details that are relevant for performance, such as pipelining, SIMD, superscalarity, memory hierarchies, etc., are covered in due detail.
This course provides –via lectures, demos, and hands-on labs– scientific training in Computational Science, and in addition, the scientific exchange of the participants among themselves.
7th Block: Introduction to Working on the VSC-3 Cluster
Date and Time: January 16, 2019, 09:00 - 16:00
Location: TU Wien, FH Schulungsraum ZID (TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, ground floor, red area)
Lecturers: VSC Team (Claudia Blaas-Schenner, Siegfried Höfinger, Dieter Kvasnicka,
Balazs Lengyel, Irene Reichl, Siegfried Reinwald, Markus Stöhr, Jan Zabloudil)
Details and Registration see: http://vsc.ac.at/training/2019/VSC-Intro-Jan
Abstract:
In this course we will help you getting started on the VSC-3 cluster, Austria's most powerful supercomputer. With running and developing software on a supercomputer there are many similarities and fewer but crucial differences compared to your desktop PC. Focusing on hands-on teaching throughout the course, you will immediately try out what you've heard and adapt it to your own needs. This lecture is equally relevant to those who will merely be running existing software as to those who will develop scientific codes.
Further topics/events will be announced as soon as they are scheduled.
