This workshop series offers a comprehensive introduction to a selection of open source tools that enable researchers to assess the performance behaviour of their code. The workshops will be augmented by revision sessions of some of the core HPC know-how. We encourage participants to bring along their own codes so they can continually assess and improve them throughout the series.

Date: 4 April 2024 – 9 May 2024
Delivery: Hybrid. Participants can decide per session if they want to attend in-person.
Format: Tuesday sessions will be delivered as 1-hour lectures, while Thursday sessions will be full-day workshops with the opportunity to apply the acquired skills to your own research code.
Requirements and prerequisites: This workshop is for small groups of developers who want to gather insight into their code base’s behaviour. Individuals without a particular code to study can participate but are encouraged to form teams. Knowledge about the code of interest, C/C++ or Fortran, MPI and further parallelisation/optimisation techniques is mandatory. See detailed requirements below. We expect each participant/group to bring along their own research code and to participate in all full-day workshops.
Location: Vis Lab, MCS 1022, Department of Computer Science at Durham University and zoom