Introduction to High-Performance Computing
Summer School at PDC
August 17-28, 2009
Schedule

Last updated: August 12, 2009

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Lecturers

SB: Scott Baden, Univ. of Cal. San Diego
BE: Björn Engquist, NA/KTH and Univ. of Austin
TE: Thomas Ericsson, Mathematics/Chalmers
EH: Erik Hagersten,Computer Science/Uppsala Univ.
MH: Mike Hammill, PDC/KTH
MH2: Michael Hanke, NA/KTH
SH: Sverker Holmgren, Uppsala Univ. and SNIC
MI: Martin Ingvar, SBI/KI
NJ: Niclas Jansson, NA/KTH
LJ: Lennart Johnsson, PDC/KTH and Univ. of Houston
EL: Erwin Laure, PDC/KTH
DL: Dag Lindbo, NA/KTH
EM: Elisabeth Molin, PDC/KTH
MN: Mats Nilsson, Acumem AB
JO: Jesper Oppelstrup, NA/KTH
TO: Tomas Oppelstrup, NA/KTH
NS: Nils Smeds, IBM Sweden
OV: Olav Vahtras, PDC/KTH

General Remarks

Generally, classes are from 9.15 to 17.00, with lectures in the morning and labs in the afternoon. However, there are exceptions, so review the schedule carefully.
Lectures are in lecture halls E3, (Osquars backe 10, 5th floor), E1, E2, (Osquars backe 2, 3rd floor) and H1 (Tekninringen 33, 2nd floor).
All the labs are in computer rooms Röd and Orange (Lindstedtsvägen 3, 4th floor). The computers in these rooms are Sun workstations.
A PDC machine room tour will take place on Saturday, August 22, between 10.00 and 12.00. You will leave from lecture hall E3 in pre-arranged groups. Someone from PDC will come by to announce that the tour will begin. You will follow that person to the machine room. The tour will take place in parallel to the project discussions.
The course Web site is: http://www.pdc.kth.se/education/summer-school/ Most of the lab materials are on the Web, but those that aren't are at: /misc/pdc/HPCsummer/2009/ which you can reach once you are logged in.

Monday, 090817

8.00-9.00: Registration outside of H1
9.15-10.00, H1, MH2, EL, JO: Welcome to PDC and the summer school. Introduction to PDC ; Course work and examination.
10.00-10.15: Coffee outside of H1
10.15-11.00, H1, SH: Lecture: Massivly parallel computations. Where are we now?
11.15-12.00, H1, EM: Lecture: Introduction to PDC's environment.
12.00-13.15: Lunch
13.15-14.00, E3, BE: Lecture: Algorithms and Data Structures for Scalable Concurrent Programs
14.15-15.00, E3, BE: Lecture continued
15.00-15.15: Coffee outside of E3
15.15-16.00, Röd/Orange, EM: Lab: Getting Acquainted with the PDC Environment
16.15-17.00, Röd/Orange, EM: Lab continued
17.00-17.30, Röd/Orange,: Lab: Non-obligatory Open Lab
17.30: ``Get-together'' picnic Meeting point is in ``ljusgården''

Tuesday, 090818

9.15-9.20, E3, MH2: Message of the Day
9.20-10.00, E3, EH: Lecture: High-performance Computer Architecture
10.00-10.15: Coffee outside of E3
10.15-11.00, E3, EH: Lecture continued
11.15-12.00, E3, EH: Lecture continued
12.00-13.15: Lunch
13.15-14.00, E3, EH: Lecture continued
14.15-15.00, E3, EH: Lecture continued
15.00-15.15: Coffee outside of E3
15.15-16.00, E3, EH: Lecture continued
16.15-17.00, Röd/Orange, EM: Lab: Non-obligatory Getting Acquainted with the PDC Environment

Wednesday, 090819

9.15-9.20, H1, MH2: Message of the Day
9.20-10.00, H1, TE: Lecture: Writing efficient programs
10.00-10.15: Coffee outside of H1
10.15-11.00, H1, TE: Lecture continued
11.15-12.00, H1, TE: Lecture continued
12.00-13.15: Lunch
13.15-14.00, H1, MN: Lecture: Performance engineering tools
14.15-15.00, Röd/Orange, DL, EM: Lab: Performance engineering
15.00-15.15: Coffee outside of E3
15.15-16.00, Röd/Orange, DL, EM: Lab continued
16.15-17.00, Röd/Orange, DL, EM: Lab continued

Thursday, 090820

9.15-9.20, E3, MH2: Message of the Day
9.20-10.00, E3, DL: Wrap-up: Performance engineering lab
10.00-10.15: Coffee outside of E3
10.15-11.00, E3, TE: Lecture: Shared memory and multi-core computers, OpenMP
11.15-12.00, E3, TE: Lecture continued
12.00-13.15: Lunch
13.15-14.00, Röd/Orange, NJ, EM: Lab: OpenMP
14.15-15.00, Röd/Orange, NJ, EM: Lab continued
15.00-15.15: Coffee outside of E3
15.15-16.00, Röd/Orange, NJ, EM: Lab continued
16.15-17.00, Röd/Orange, NJ, EM: Lab continued

Friday, 090821

9.15-9.20, E3, MH2: Message of the Day
9.20-10.00, E3, MI: Case Study: Computational aspects of brain function
10.00-10.15: Coffee outside of E3
10.15-11.00, E3, TE: Lecture: Shared memory and multi-core computers, OpenMP
11.15-12.00, E3, TE: Lecture continued
12.00-13.15: Lunch
13.15-15.00, Röd/Orange, NJ, EM: Lab: OpenMP, Advanced project
14.15-15.00, Röd/Orange, NJ, EM: Lab continued
15.00-15.15: Coffee outside of E3
15.15-16.00, Röd/Orange, NJ, EM: Lab continued
16.15-17.00, Röd/Orange, NJ, EM: Lab continued

Saturday, 090822

9.15-10.00, E3, NJ

Wrap-up: OpenMP project

The following activities are held in parallel

10.15-12.00, E3, JO, MH2

Detailed discussion of course project

10.15-12.00, E3, JO, MH2

project team building

10.15-12.00, , EM

Visit to the computer hall

Sunday, 090823

All day: Free

Monday, 090824

9.15-9.20, E2, MH2: Message of the Day
9.20-10.00, E2, MH2: Lecture: MPI Basics
10.00-10.15: Coffee outside of E2
10.15-11.00, E2, MH2: Lecture: MPI Point-to-Point Communications I
11.15-12.00, E2, NS: Lecture: MPI Performance tools
12.00-13.15: Lunch
13.15-14.00, Röd/Orange, MH2: Lab: MPI Basics
14.15-15.00, Röd/Orange, MH2: Lab continued
15.00-15.15: Coffee outside of E2
15.15-16.00, Röd/Orange, DL, TO: Lab: MPI Performance tools
16.15-17.00, Röd/Orange, DL, TO: Lab continued
15.15-17.00, Same location, JO, MH2: Project work. Discussion with project members and tutors about topics.
17.15-18.00, Röd/Orange,: Lab: Non-obligatory Open Lab

Tuesday, 090825

9.15-9.20, E2, MH2: Message of the Day
9.20-10.00, E2, MH2: Lecture: MPI Point-to-Point Communications II
10.00-10.15: Coffee outside of E2
10.15-11.00, E2, MH2: Lecture: MPI Collective Communications I
11.15-12.00, E2, TO: Case study: GPU programming
12.00-13.15: Lunch
13.15-14.00, Röd/Orange, MH2: Lab: MPI Point-to-Point Communications I
14.15-15.00, Röd/Orange, MH2: Lab continued
15.00-15.15: Coffee outside of E2
15.15-16.00, Röd/Orange, MH2: Lab: MPI Point-to-Point Communications II
16.15-17.00, Röd/Orange, MH2: Lab continued
17.15-18.00, Röd/Orange,: Lab: Non-obligatory Open Lab

Wednesday, 090826

9.15-9.20, E2, MH2: Message of the Day
9.20-10.00, E2, MH2: Lecture: MPI Derived Data Types and MPI Virtual Topologies
10.00-10.15: Coffee outside of E2
10.15-11.00, E2, MH2: Lecture continued
11.20-12.00, E2, MH2: Lecture: Hybrid (MPI + OpenMP) programming
12.00-13.15: Lunch
13.15-14.00, Röd/Orange, MH2: Lab: MPI Collective Communications I
14.15-15.00, Röd/Orange, MH2: Lab continued
15.00-15.15: Coffee outside of E2
15.15-16.00, Röd/Orange, MH2: Lab: Hybrid (MPI + OpenMP) programming
16.15-17.00, Röd/Orange, MH2: Lab continued
15.15-17.00, Same location, JO, MH2: Project work. Discussion with project members and tutors about topics.
17.15-18.00, Röd/Orange,: Lab: Non-obligatory Open Lab

Thursday, 090827

9.15-9.20, E2, MH2: Message of the Day
9.20-10.00, E2, MH2: Wrap-up: Lab in hybrid programming
10.00-10.15: Coffee outside of E2
10.15-11.00, E2, EM: Lecture: Performance Modeling Techniques
11.15-12.00, E2, EL: Case Study: Grid computing
12.00-13.00: Lunch
13.15-14.00, Röd/Orange, MH2: Lab: MPI Derived Data Types and MPI Virtual Topologies
14.15-15.00, Röd/Orange, MH2: Lab continued
15.00-15.15: Coffee outside of E2
15.15-16.00, Röd/Orange, MH2: Lab continued
16.15-17.00, Röd/Orange, MH2: Lab continued
17.00: Panel Discussion: The future of supercomputing
19.00: ``Summing up'' dinner at a restaurant Jakthornet, (Fiskartorpsvägen 16)

Friday, 090828

9.15-9.20, E2, MH2: Message of the Day
9.20-10.00, E2, SB: Latency hiding
10.00-10.15: Coffee outside of E2
10.15-11.00, E2, NS: Lecture in Programming Languages: MPI 2
11.15-12.15, E2, LJ: Outlook
12.15-13.15: Lunch
13.15-15.00, Röd/Orange, EM, MH2: Lab: Continuation of OpenMP project, Virtual topologies, or hybrid programming
13.15-15.00, Same location, JO, MH2: Project work. Discussion with project members and tutors about topics.
15.00-15.15: Coffee outside of E2
15.15-17.00, Röd/Orange, EM, MH2: Lab continued
17.00: Deadline to submit project proposals.

Michael Hanke 2009-08-12