HPC Training Series - Course 21 "HPC for Beginners: Basic Concepts, MPI and OpenMP"

Friday 20 Mar 2026, 09:45 → 14:45 Europe/Athens

EuroCC@Greece announces the 21st Course of HPC Training Series with the subject "HPC for Beginners: Basic Concepts, MPI and OpenMP".

Date: March 20th, 2026, 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

This course is ideal for those looking to understand the basics of how parallel computing technologies, such as MPI and OpenMP, can improve code performance.

Course Description:

This is an introductory course designed for engineers, developers, IT professionals, students, and researchers looking to enhance code performance using parallel computing. Participants will learn fundamental concepts of High-Performance Computing (HPC), with a focus on shared and distributed memory parallelism. The course covers OpenMP for shared memory parallelism and MPI for distributed memory computing, introducing both single-node and multi-node parallel techniques, respectively. Additionally, participants will gain insights into accessing Greek and European supercomputers for research and development.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the fundamental concepts of High-Performance Computing (HPC)

• Explain the basic principles of parallel computing and how it enhances code performance.

• Apply OpenMP for shared memory parallelism using basic constructs.

• Utilize MPI for distributed memory parallelism under blocking and non-blocking communication.

Prerequisites: 

Participants should have:

• Basic programming knowledge (preferably in C, C++ or Fortran).

• A general understanding of computer science concepts.

• No prior experience with HPC, MPI, or OpenMP is required.

 

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09:45 → 10:00 Introduction to EuroCC & the training events

Speaker: Nikolaos Bakas (GRNET)

10:00 → 10:15 How to access the EuroHPC-JU supercomputers

Speaker: Nikolaos Bakas (GRNET)

10:15 → 10:30 How to access the Greek HPC Infrastructure ARIS

Speaker: Nikolaos Triantafyllis (GRNET)

10:30 → 11:00 How to submit a job via Slurm on an HPC cluster

Speaker: Nikolaos Triantafyllis (GRNET)

11:00 → 12:15 Introduction to OpenMP

Speaker: Georgios Goumas (NTUA)

12:15 → 12:30 Q&A

12:30 → 13:45 Introduction to MPI (Message Passing Interface)

Speaker: Antony Spyropoulos (UTH)

13:45 → 14:00 Q&A

14:00 → 14:05 Wrap-Up

Speaker: Nikolaos Bakas (GRNET)