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CHPC Winter School
- For postgrads: HPC School
- For undergrads: Student Cluster Competition
- 3 to 8 July 2017
- Hosted by E&EM Engineering, Stellenbosch University
HPC School
The HPC Winter School is the CHPC's flagship course in parallel programming for high performance computing covering:
- Introduction to high performance computing hardware, systems and techniques
- Multi-core programming with OpenMP
- Using message passing (MPI) on cluster super computers
- High performance co-processors
- Rapid prototyping for HPC with python
APPLICATION
- Applications for The 2017 HPC Winter School are closed.
Programme Overview
| Sun 2 Jul | Monday 3 Jul | Tuesday 4 Jul | Wednesday 5 Jul | Thursday 6 Jul | Friday 7 Jul | Saturday 8 Jul | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast* from 07:15 to 08:00 | |||||||
| 08:00 | Registration | ||||||
| 08:30 | Lecture 1 | Lecture 3 | Lecture 5 | Lecture 7 | Lecture 9 | Evaluation 1 | |
| 10:00 | break | break | |||||
| 10:30 | Lecture 2 | Lecture 4 | Lecture 6 | Lecture 8 | Lecture 10 | Evaluation 2 | |
| 12:00 | Lunch* | Lunch* | |||||
| 13:00 | Practical 1 | Practical 3 | Practical 5 | Practical 7 | Practical 9 | Evaluation 3 | |
| 14:30 | break | Departures | |||||
| 15:00 | Arrivals | Practical 2 | Practical 4 | Practical 6 | Practical 8 | Practical 10 | Evaluation 4 |
| 16:30 | end of day | ||||||
| 18:00 | Dinner* from 18:00 to 19:00 | ||||||
*Note: Meals provided only for delegates staying in hostels.
HPC School in Parallel Programming
Lectures 1 & 2
Foundation: Introduction to HPC architectures and systems. The Linux programming environment. Job submission and control.
Lectures 3 & 4
OpenMP part I: Programming shared memory (SMP) systems with OpenMP.
Lectures 5 & 6
OpenMP part II: Programming shared memory (SMP) systems with OpenMP.
Lectures 7 & 8
MPI part I: Parallel programming with the message passing library (MPI) for distributed memory systems.
Lectures 9 & 10
MPI part II: Design of parallel programs for clusters. Using MPI with Python.
Evaluation 1 & 2
A short written & practical test.
Student Cluster Competition
Lectures 1 & 2
Lectures 3 & 4
Lectures 5 & 6
Lectures 7 & 8
Lectures 9 & 10
Evaluation
Note: each team is evaluated, and some teams will have their evaluation after lunch.
