Introduction to Parallel Computing Workshop: 19 January 2024

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 18 January 2024 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.

Introduction to Parallel Computing Workshop
Date	19 January 2024
Time	1:00 - 4:30 PM
Location	~~Brendan Iribe Center, Room 1207~~ remotely via zoom
Instructor	Dr. Franz Klein Division of Information Technology, UMD
Cost	free
Registration Form	link to registration form
Application Deadline	18 January 2024 or when registration is full

Overview

This workshop is targeted at users of the Zaratan HPC cluster 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.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of Linux/Unix and the use of our HPC clusters is assumed; we suggest to attend the workshop "Introduction to Unix", and ideally "Introduction to Compiling Software on HPC", before taking this course.

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

While the registration deadline is 18 January 2024, we are limiting this workshop to 54 participants (number of classroom seats) on a first-come, first-served basis, and registration will close once the workshop is full.

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.