SunHPC 2004 - High Performance Computing on the Sun Fire SMP-Cluster - Workshop in Aachen - March 29 - April 2, 2004 - kurs-l - lists.rwth-aachen.de

9 Feb 2004


      SunHPC 2004
                   High Performance Computing
                  on the Sun Fire SMP-Cluster
Workshop
March 29 - April 2, 2004
                       RWTH Aachen University
              Center for Computing and Communication
                          Aachen, Germany
Part I:   Tuning Serial Applications
              Part II:  Shared Memory Parallelization
              Part III: Distributed Memory Parallelization using MPI
http://www.rz.rwth-aachen.de/hpc/sun
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Introduction
Have you wanted to know more how to optimize a technical, scientific
application for a modern RISC microprocessor? Are you interested in
learning about parallelization? Now is the time to learn!
We will focus on serial program tuning, as well as tuning shared and
distributed memory parallel applications using automatic parallelization,
OpenMP resp. MPI. No background knowledge in these topics is assumed.
We will cover the basics as well.
The general philosophy of the workshop is to build up understanding
of key concepts that are relevant to obtain good application
performance. Once this is achieved, it is much easier to use the
development environment in the best possible way.
The Sun compilers, the Sun performance analyzer and the Sun HPC
ClusterTools environment (MPI) will be covered in detail. It will be
shown how these tools can be used to get optimal performance out of
UltraSPARC III, IIIi and III Cu based Sun workstations and servers.
We will also briefly touch upon some third party software products
(TotalView, KAP Pro/Toolset, Vampir), which augment the programmer's
tool suite on the Sun systems.
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The Participants
Attendees should be comfortable with C or Fortran programming and
interested in learning more about the technical details of
application tuning.  Although there is no special coverage of C++ and the
examples are in Fortran and/or C, C++ programmers will certainly benefit
from this course as well.
Prepared lab exercises will be made available to participants. These
exercises have been selected to demonstrate features discussed
in the presentations. Participants who prefer to work on their own
application(s) instead will be welcome to do so. A suitable preparation
of Makefiles and small plus medium sized data sets are of course desirable
in this case.
The workshop language will be English.
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The Speakers
Ruud van der Pas ...
     has a degree in numerical mathematics and physics. Since 1985,
     he has been involved with High Performance and Technical Computing. 
After
     having worked for 4 years as a consultant in numerical analysis and 
high-end
     computing at the University of Utrecht, and after positions at 
Convex and
     SGI, Ruud works for Sun Microsystems since 1998. He is a member of 
Sun's corporate
     HPTC team and is actively involved in application tuning. He 
provides performance
     consultancy to customers and works with several engineering groups 
within
     Sun to enhance current and future products. Ruud will be the main 
speaker
     of Parts I and II of the workshop
Jonas Edberg ...
     has studied applied mechanics and received a Ph.D. degree from
     Lulea University of Technology in 1996 on "Numerical Modeling of
     Hot Rolling" using and developing finite element analysis (FEM). He 
now
     works with High Performance Technical Computing support within Sun 
Service
     PTS (Product Technical Support) in EMEA which provides world-wide 
customer
     supports for Sun HPC ClusterTools, Compiler/Development Tools and 
Sun ONE
     Grid Engine Software. Before joining Sun in 1998, he was a project 
leader
     and senior research scientist at Mefos which is a Industrial 
research institute
     for the metallurgical and metalworking industry. He worked as a 
collaborator
     with Lawrence Livermore laboratories on the development of the 
finite element
     codes Nike, Dyna and Topaz. Jonas will be the main speaker of Part 
III of
     the workshop.
    
Dieter an Mey ...
     studied Mathematics and Computer Science at the Aachen
     University. Since 1983 he is a consultant in high performance 
technical computing
     at the Center for Computing and Communication. He will present 
short introductions
     into some state-of-the-art third party software products for 
program development.
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The Agenda
The following topics will be covered in detail:
Part I:   Tuning Serial Applications
           * The memory hierarchy in RISC cache based systems
           * Serial optimization techniques
           * The following Sun Studio components:
             * The Fortran and C compilers
             * The Performance Library
             * The Performance Analyzer
           * The TotalView Debugger
           * Microprocessor and server architectures
           * Serial optimization techniques
           * Modulo scheduling
           * Case studies serial optimization
Part II:  Shared Memory Parallelization
           * Introduction into parallelization
           * Shared memory parallelization
             * Data dependency analysis
             * Automatic parallelization
             * Explicit parallelization using OpenMP
             * Tuning OpenMP applications
             * OpenMP case studies
             * Tools for OpenMP programming
Part III: Distributed Memory Parallelization using MPI
           * Introduction into explicit message passing programming
             using the Message Passing Interface (MPI)
           * Sun HPC ClusterTools 5 overview
           * Build & execution environment for MPI applications (CRE)
           * Debugging MPI codes on Sun using Prism and TotalView
           * Sun MPI implementation
           * Runtime consideration and tuning
           * Optimizing MPI communication
           * Sun Scalable Scientific Subroutine Library (S3L)
           * MPI performance analysis
           * Vampir/Vampirtrace overview
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The Costs
The workshop is organized in cooperation with the RWTH Aachen University
and Sun Microsystems. There is no workshop fee. All other costs (e.g.
travel, hotel, and consumptions) are at your own expenses.
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More Information
see http://www.rz.rwth-aachen.de/hpc/sun
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Contact
Dieter an Mey
E-mail: anmey@rz.rwth-aachen.de
Tel:    +49 241 8024377
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Dieter an Mey
High Performance Computing               Hochleistungsrechnen
RWTH Aachen University                   Rechen- und Kommunikations-
Center for Computing and Communication   zentrum der RWTH Aachen
phone: ++49-(0)241-80-24377              Seffenter Weg 23
fax:   ++49-(0)241-80-22134              52074 Aachen, Germany
email: anmey@rz.rwth-aachen.de
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