MPI (Lunarc November 2016)

Name	MPI (Lunarc November 2016)
Description	An introduction to parallel programming using MPI
Type of event	Course
Location	Lund (Lunarc)
Start date	2016-11-08
End date	2016-11-10

Course overview

Message Passing using the MPI-standard is presently the most widely deployed programming model in massively parallel high performance computing. Message passing is suitable for programming a wide range of current computer architectures, ranging from multi-core desk top equipment to the fastest HPC systems in the world, offering several hundred thousand processing elements.

The course is at the beginners level regarding parallel computing and assumes no prior experience in parallel computing. The concepts behind message passing and distributed memory computing will be introduced and the syntax of the key MPI calls will be explained. The course will include point-to-point communications, non-blocking communication and the collective communications calls. Practical sessions to deepen the understanding of the lectures will be part of the course. At the end of the course participants should be able to write their own MPI programs at an intermediate level. The teaching language will be English.

Pre-requisites

Participants should be able to write serial programs in either of C or Fortran.

Course web page and registration

For more information and registration refer to the Lunarc course page. Registration is now open.