This course will take place as an on-site and in-person event at JSC. It is not possible to attend online. The course will be held in English.
An introduction to the parallel programming of supercomputers is given. The focus is on the usage of the Message Passing Interface (MPI), the most often used programming model for systems with distributed memory. Furthermore, OpenMP will be presented, which is often used on shared-memory architectures.
The first four days of the course consist of lectures and short exercises. A fifth day is devoted to demonstrating the use of MPI and OpenMP in a larger context. To this end, starting from a simple but representative serial algorithm, a parallel version will be designed and implemented using the techniques presented in the course.
Topics covered will include
- Fundamentals of Parallel Computing
- MPI (basics, point-to-point communication, collective communication, derived data types, I/O, communicators, thread compliance)
- OpenMP (parallel construct, data sharing, loop work sharing, task work sharing)
Prerequisites
knowledge about Linux (e.g. make, command line editor, Linux shell), experience in one of the following programming languages C/C++/Fortran/Python
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Language:
This course is given in English.
Dates:
10-14 August 2026, 09:00-16:30 each day
Instructors:
Ilya Zhukov, Jolanta Zjupa, Junxian Chew, Michael Knobloch, Jan Andre Reuter (JSC)
Fees
Free of charge
Pre-required logistics
Knowledge of either C, C++, Python, or Fortran, basic knowledge of UNIX/Linux (incl. command line, Linux shell) and a UNIX standard editor (e.g. vi, emacs)