Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart: Shared memory parallelization with OpenMP

Prerequisites and content levels

Prerequisites:

Familiarity with Linux and Linux editors is recommended.
Basics/principles of programming (in C, C++ or Fortran).
For doing the hands-on labs participants can choose between using their own laptops or any system they have access to that provides an OpenMP enabled compiler for their preferred programming language C/C++ or Fortran. Alternatively, participants can ask for a training user account at the VSC for the duration of the course.

Content levels:

Basic: 6 hours
Intermediate: 4 hours
Advanced: 2 hours

Learn more about course curricula and content levels.

Instructors

Lukas Einkemmer, Philipp Gschwandtner and Martina Prugger (University of Innsbruck)
Claudia Blaas-Schenner (VSC Research Center, TU Wien)
Moritz Siegel (tutor; VSC Research Center, TU Wien)

Agenda

1st day

08:45 Join online
09:00 Welcome
09:10 Introduction to modern hardware (talk)
10:10 An overview of OpenMP (talk)
10:35 Coffee
10:50 OpenMP programming and execution model (talk+practical)
12:30 Lunch
13:30 OpenMP worksharing directives (talk+practical)
15:00 Coffee
15:15 More OpenMP (talk+practical)
16:00 Summary (talk) + Q & A
16:30 End of first day

2nd day

08:45 Join online
09:00 How to write correct OpenMP programs (talk)
09:30 Intel Inspector XE (demo+practical)
10:30 Coffee
10:45 How to write efficient OpenMP programs (talk)
11:00 Heat equation (talk+practical)
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Heat equation (practical — continued)
14:00 Vectorization with OpenMP (talk)
14:25 Thread affinity in OpenMP (talk)
15:00 Coffee
15:15 The taskloop directive (talk+practical)
16:30 End of second day (course)

Handout

A link to the course material (slides and exercises) will be available at course start

Registration Information

Please register via the PRACE registration page with your official e-mail address to prove your affiliation.

https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/1427/registrations/1061/

Registration period is from 16 August to 2 November 2022, and follows the "first come – first served" principle.
Additional registrations will be added to a waiting list.

Fee

This course is a PRACE Training Center (PTC) event. Therefore, the course is open and free of charge for participants from academia and industry from the Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU) and Associated/Other Countries to the Horizon 2020 programme.

Contact

Claudia Blaas-Schenner and Ulrike Faltin: training(at)vsc.ac.at

Further courses

See the training overview and the Supercomputing Academy pages.

Official course URL(s)

https://www.hlrs.de/training/2022/VSC3 or https://vsc.ac.at/training/2022/OpenMP-Nov/ (at VSC)

https://vsc.ac.at/training (at the VSC Research Center, TU Wien)