Computational Modelling Group

Workshop  29th March 2011 8 a.m.  EPCC, Edinburgh, Scotland

DEISA/PRACE Spring School: Tools and Techniques for Extreme Scalability

Web page
http://www.prace-project.eu/events/edinburgh-prace-school/
Categories
C, Fortran, GPU, MPI, OpenMP
Submitter
Petrina Butler

29-31 March 2011

EPCC and ICHEC are co-organising the DEISA/PRACE Spring School to be held in Edinburgh on 29-31 March 2011. This three-day event is based around a series of invited lectures and associated hands-on practical sessions, and will cover newlanguages, programming paradigms and tools for extreme scalability. All techniques to be covered are applicable to a wide range of HPC architectures, and attendees will be able to try them out in practice on the UK's national supercomputer, HECToR, which isthe largest Cray XE6 system in Europe.

The school will comprise a number of sessions, most running in two parallel streams, covering the following topics:

Tuesday 29th of March 2011 9:30-13:30

Introduction to the Cray XE6, by Tom Edwards (Cray Centre of Excellence, Edinburgh) Tuesday 29th of March 2011 14:00-17:30

Track 1: GPU Programming with CUDA, by Alan Gray and James Perry (EPCC, Edinburgh)

Track 2: Optimising for the Cray XE6, by Tom Edwards (Cray Centre of Excellence, Edinburgh)

Wednesday 30th of March 2011, 9:30 - 17:30

Track 1: Parallel Programming with Coarray Fortran by David Henty (EPCC, Edinburgh) and Harvey Richardson (Cray Exascale Research Initiative, Cray UK Ltd, Edinburgh)

Track 2: Parallel application performance analysis with Scalasca by Brian Wylie (Jüelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany)

Thursday 31st of March 2011, 9:30 - 17:30

Track 1: High Performance Parallel Programming with Unified Parallel C (UPC) by Tarek El-Ghazawi and Olivier Serres (George Washington University, USA)

Track 2: Hybrid MPI/OpenMP Programming by Gabriele Jost (Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA)

Registration

Attendance is free for all academics from the EU or any PRACE partner country.

To register, please fill in the form at:

http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/training-education/course-registration-form/

Location

The Spring School will be held slightly outside the city centre at the University of Edinburgh's Science and Engineering campus called Kings Buildings. Information on EPCC's location is available from the EPCC's website at: http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/contact-us/maps/

During the school refreshments and lunch will be provided.

A complimentary meal has been arranged for the evening of Wednesday 30th of March 2011 at The Scottish Whisky Experience in Edinburgh city centre. The evenings proceedings kick-off with a whiskey tour at 19:00 and the meal itself is served at 20:10.

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