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Introduction to Parallel Computing: 8 August 2023

The Division of Information Technology (DIT) at the University of Maryland is pleased to announce the following workshop for users of our High Performance Computing (HPC) resources.

There are only a limited number of seats available. Registration will remain open until 6 August 2023 or until all seats are filled.
We expect the workshop to fill up before the registration deadline. If the workshop is successful, we are hoping to repeat this workshop regularly.

Warning

Registration is currently closed. We are hoping to repeat this workshop in the future, please join us then.

Introduction to Parallel Computing
Date 8 August 2023
Time 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location Brendan Iribe Center, Room 1116
Instructor Dr. Franz Klein
Division of Information Technology, UMD
Cost free
Registration Form link to registration form
Application Deadline 6 August 2023
or when registration is full

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Overview

This workshop is targeted at users of the Zaratan and/or Juggernaut clusters who are interested in applying or developing multithreaded or multi-process applications. This course will cover:

  • techniques to parallelize code on a single node and across nodes,
  • openMP for shared-memory parallel programming support on a single node,
  • MPI (openMPI, IntelMPI) for distributed-memory parallel programming on single and multiple nodes,
  • optimization of SBATCH directives for parallelized code, esp. hybrid openMP-MPI code.

Directives to control the behavior of multi-threaded & multi-process programs (environment variables, compiler directives, etc) as well as code layout for parallelism in C, C++, and Fortran programs will be discussed and worked-out examples presented.

The morning session will cover techniques to parallelize code on a single node (multithreading), the afternoon session will cover MPI and optimization of SBATCH directives.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of Linux/Unix and the use of our HPC clusters is assumed; we suggest to attend the workshops:

System Requirements

This is a bring-your-own-laptop event. Make sure that a terminal application (e.g. ssh or PuTTY) is installed. A modern web browser (on Windows preferably Firefox) is required for use of the OnDemand web portal.

Miscellaneous Details

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While the registration deadline is 6 August 2023, we are limiting this workshop to 55 participants (number of classroom seats) on a first-come, first-served basis, and registration will close once the workshop is full. A limited number of participants will allow for more detailed discussions of questions.

Note

NOTE: DIT reserves the right to cancel the workshop for any reason with little notice.

If you have questions or need more information about the workshop, please feel free to contact us