HPC course 2015

Welcome to the HPC training week at UiB.

Time: week 46, 9 – 13 november, 9:00-16:00 (1h break)

Registration https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=1557774

Location: University of Bergen.
Indoor maps are available trough MazeMap. MazeMap works in browser, on iOS and Android devices.

Location nr.1: (Monday - Tuesday)
Christiesgate 13, room 251
Indoor map http://s.mazemap.com/1GKXrKV, we didn't add route here, because MazeMap is creating non-exisitng one. Please use the main entrance on the corner, from there there will be signs to follow.

Location nr.2: (Wednesday - Friday)
Allègaten 55, room 359
Indoor map http://bit.ly/1P1mBrr

This week course is sponsored by: UiB, Sigma2(NOTUR) and International Research Training Group "Intelligent Detectors”.

And is a lecture-week of the forskerskole / International Research Training Group "Intelligent Detectors”.

Agenda

Monday

• Intro to HPC part1 - Introduction to HPC, available resources at UiB, how to get access and other basic things.
• Intro to HPC part2 - Continuation of the previous talk, focus on job scripts, bash and other specifics.
• Note on Python and R - Short intro into mpi4py and Rmpi.
• Revision systems - Introduction and hands-on on revision control systems, like git and svn.
• Build systems - autools/make, cmake

Tuesday

• Introduction to OpenMP programming, with exercises in C and Fortran Part1 - John Floan.
• Introduction to OpenMP programming, with exercises in C and Fortran Part2 - John Floan.

Wednesday - parallel sessions, B are optimised for NOTUR user

• A. ROOT
• A. Modern C++
• B. Parallel IO with NetCDF Part1 – Alok Kumar Gupta.
• B. Parallel IO with NetCDF Part2 – Alok Kumar Gupta.

Thursday - first half of the day, parallel session, after lunch common

• A. Grid Computing
• B. MPI Programming - Henrik Nagel.
• Debugging

Friday - tentative, we hold sessions only if there are enough interested

We finish at 12:00!

• Presentation of projects / Exam
• Questions & discussion
• Extra practice from the previous days.

Almost all sessions include hands-on and therefore a computer with an SSH client is a requirement. We encourage you to bring your laptop.