Crash Course in Supercomputing, June 28, 2024

June 28, 2024

This hybrid training, as part of the 2024 Berkeley Lab Computational Sciences Summer Student Program, is also open to NERSC, OLCF, and ALCF users. This training is geared towards novice parallel programmers.

Overview

In this course, students will learn to write parallel programs that can be run on a supercomputer. We begin by discussing the concepts of parallelization before introducing MPI and OpenMP, the two leading parallel programming libraries. Finally, the students will put together all the concepts from the class by programming, compiling, and running a parallel code on one of the NERSC supercomputers. Training accounts will be provided for students who have not yet set up a NERSC account.

Crash Course Agenda

Morning Session

Time (PDT/UTC-7)	Topic	Presenters
09:00 - 9:30 am	Welcome and Introduction to Parallel Programming Concepts	Rebecca Hartman-Baker, PhD (NERSC) Charles Lively, PhD (NERSC) Yun He, PhD (NERSC)
09:30 - 09:45 am	Understanding Supercomputer Architecture	Charles Lively, PhD (NERSC)
09:45 - 10:15 am	Basic Parallelism & MPI	Rebecca Hartman-Baker, PhD (NERSC)
10:15 - 10:30 am	BREAK
10:40 - 11:15 am	MPI Collectives	Charles Lively, PhD (NERSC)
11:15 - 12:00 pm	Q&A and Interactive Exercises Practice	Rebecca Hartman-Baker, PhD (NERSC) Charles Lively, PhD (NERSC) Helen He, PhD (NERSC)
12:00 - 01:00 pm	LUNCH

Afternoon Agenda

Time (PDT/UTC-7)	Topic	Presenters
01:00 - 02:00 pm	Introduction to OpenMP	Helen He, PhD (NERSC)
02:00 - 02:45 pm	OpenMP + Hybrid Introduction	Rebecca Hartman-Baker, PhD (NERSC)
02:45 - 03:00 pm	BREAK
03:00 - 04:00 pm	Interactive Exercises/Hands-On Practice- Github Repo: https://github.com/NERSC/crash-course-supercomputing.git	Rebecca Hartman-Baker, PhD (NERSC) Charles Lively, PhD (NERSC) Helen He, PhD (NERSC)