This on-site course in Erlangen, a collaboration of Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU) and Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ), is targeted at students and scientists with interest in programming modern HPC clusters from the research group to the computing center level.

Topics covered include:

• HPC Introduction
• HPC Systems in Germany
• Elements of MPI and OpenMP
• OpenMP in Depth
• MPI in Depth
• Basic Computer Architecture: Shared Memory
• Basic computer architecture: Distributed Memory
• Basic Profiling Tools
• Performance Pitfalls