MOOC: A short introduction to MPI One-sided Communication

This online course will start on the 20th of April and it will run for two weeks, with an estimated effort of 4 hours per week. It is provided as a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course).

During this time you will be guided through the concepts of one-sided communication and learn to perform these data movements correctly and efficiently using MPI (with C and Fortran bindings). Several examples and exercises will illustrate their use and help to understand the benefits of these routines, and you also will be able to challenge your knowledge with some quizzes!

This online course has been developed by HLRS, ASTRON and SURFsara with the sponsorship of PRACE, and the registration is done for free through FutureLearn in the indicated link below.

Location

Online course
Organizer: HLRS, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Start date

Apr 20, 2020

End date

Apr 30, 2020

Entry level

Advanced

Course subject areas

Parallel Programming

Topics

MPI

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Program

In the first week, you will get an overview and learn about the principles of one-sided communication. In the second week, we will provide more details, examples and excercises of one-sided communication.

This course will cover:

MPI one-sided communication
Window creation and allocation
Remote Memory Access (RMA) routines
Synchronization calls
Examples and exercises

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

Apply MPI one-sided communication to your communication patterns in your MPI applications
Explain the main advantages and disadvantages of MPI one-sided communication
Design your program using methods of MPI communication that prevent deadlocks and ensure the correctness of the program
Improve scalability of your program by substituting non-scalable solutions with scalable one-sided approaches

Prerequisites and content levels

Prerequisites

C or Fortran and basic knowledge of MPI.

Content levels

Intermediate: 8 hours

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Language

The course language is English.

Registration

Registration is now closed

Fee

This online course is for free.

Organization

PRACE PATC and bwHPC-C5

HLRS is part of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), which is one of the six PRACE Advanced Training Centres (PATCs) that started in Feb. 2012.
HLRS is also member of the Baden-Württemberg initiative bwHPC-C5.
This course is sponsored by the PRACE MOOC program, but is not part of the PRACE training curriculum. This course is also provided within the framework of the bwHPC-C5 user support.