HPC Training Series - Course 1 "HPC for beginners: basic concepts, MPI and OpenMP"

Europe/Athens
Description

EuroCC@Greece announces the 1st Course of its brand new HPC Training Series with the subject “HPC for beginners: basic concepts, MPI and OpenMP”, taking place online on March 29th, 2024.  

Date: March 29th, 2024, at 09:45 EET

Location: Online via Zoom

Presentation Language: Greek

Audience: Suitable for all users (with a focus on engineers, developers, IT professionals, students, researchers) who seek to understand the basics of how parallel computing technologies MPI and OpenMP can improve the performance of their code.

During the course, the following concepts will be tackled:

  • Short history and general concepts of HPC & AI
  • Introduction to OpenMP, shared parallel model, basic constructs
  • Introduction to MPI (Message Programming Interface) / General concepts: Distributed memory parallelism, MPI process model, Global communication, Point-to-point communication, Non-blocking point-to-point communication

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    • 09:45 10:00
      Introduction EuroCC & the training events 15m
      Speaker: Ilias Hatzakis (GRNET)
    • 10:00 10:30
      HPC for beginners 30m

      General concepts of HPC, OpenMP, MPI, CUDA, GPUs, available resources, a bit of history.

      Speaker: Dr Nikos Bakas (GRNET)
    • 10:30 11:00
      AI for beginners 30m

      Short history of AI, AI concepts, AI & HPC.

      Speaker: Dr Nikos Bakas (GRNET)
    • 11:00 12:30
      Introduction to OpenMP 1h 30m

      Shared memory parallel model, basic constructs.

      Speaker: Dr Georgios Goumas (NTUA)
    • 12:30 14:00
      Introduction to MPI (Message Passing Interface) 1h 30m

      General concepts: Distributed memory parallelism, MPI process model, Global communication, Point-to-point communication, Non-blocking point-to-point communication.

      Speaker: Dr Antony Spyropoulos (NTUA)
    • 14:00 14:05
      Wrap Up 5m
      Speaker: Dr Nikos Bakas (GRNET)