2016 Ontario Summer School for High Performance Computing Central

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About

The 2016 Ontario Summer School on High Performance Computing, whose second installment of the year will be hosted by SciNet, provides attendees with opportunities to learn and share knowledge and experience in high performance and technical computing. The format: a five-day workshop with mixed lectures and hands-on sessions on a number of selected subjects, including shared memory programming, distributed memory programming, parallel data processing, and general purpose graphics processing unit programming.

Below are descriptions and course material for the Central version, given from July 11th to July 15th, 2016, in Toronto.

The location of this version of the summer school is:

Wallberg Building
Rooms 116 and 119
University of Toronto
St. George Campus
184-200 College Street
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3E5
Canada

More information can be found below and in the handout package.

Introduction to HPC and SciNet

Abstract

This half-day session will provide an introduction to basic concepts of high-performance computing. It is intended to be a high level primer for those largely new to HPC, and serve as a foundation upon which to build over the coming days. Topics will include motivation for HPC, essential issues, problem characteristics as they apply to parallelism and a high level overview of parallel programming models. Strategies of running large sets of serial processes using e.g. GNU parallel, will also be presented.

Details

Time/date

Monday July 11, 2016, 09:30 - 12:30

Location

Wallberg Building, Room 116

Instructor

Dr. Mike Nolta (SciNet)

Prerequisites

Basic Linux skills are useful to follow along. If you do not have these, consider taking the "Intro to the Linux Shell" in the afternoon.

Slides and other material

Programming Shared Memory Systems with OpenMP

Abstract

In these two half-day sessions, lectures and hands-on labs are interspersed, and the students will learn the basics of shared memory programming with OpenMP. In particular, we will discuss the OpenMP's threads, memory, and performance, reductions and load balancing. We will also discuss extensions to heterogeneous systems such as offered by the OpenMP 4.0 and OpenACC standards.

Details

Time/date

Monday July 11, 2016, 13:30 - 16:30
Tuesday July 12, 2016, 09:30 - 12:30

Location

Wallberg Building, Room 116

Instructor

Dr. Ramses van Zon (SciNet)

Prerequisites

C/C++ and/or Fortran scientific programming; Experience editing and compiling code in a Linux environment.

Slides and other material



Introduction to the Linux Shell

Abstract

Working with many of the HPC systems in Ontario involves using the Linux/UNIX command line. This provides a very powerful interface, but it can be quite daunting for the uninitiated. In this half-day session, you can become initiated with this course. This hands on session will cover basic commands and scripting, as well as touching on some powerful constructs like regular expressions. It could be a great boon for your productivity!

Details

Time/date

Monday July 11, 13:30 - 16:30

Location

Wallberg Building, Room 119

Instructor

Dr. Mike Nolta (SciNet)

Prerequisites

A laptop with a linux-like environment.

Slides and other material


R for Data Science

Abstract

This session offers a brief introduction to R, with a focus on data analysis and statistics.

Details

Date/time

Tuesday July 12, 2016, 09:30 - 12:30

Location

Wallberg Building, Room 119

Instructor

Dr. Erik Spence (SciNet)

Prerequisites

Some programming experience in any language. You should have used and written functions. Bring a laptop with R or Rstudio installed.

Slides and other material

Programming Clusters with MPI

Abstract

In this 1.5-day session, through lectures interspersed with hands-on labs, the students will learn the basics of MPI programming. Examples and exercises will be based on parallelization of common scientific computing problems.

Details

Time/date

Tuesday July 12, 2016, 13:30 - 16:30
Wednesday July 13, 2016, 09:30 - 12:30
Wednesday July 13, 2016, 13:30 - 16:30

Location

Wallberg Building, Room 116

Instructor

Dr. Scott Northrup (SciNet)

Prerequisites

C and/or Fortran scientific programming; experience editing and compiling code in a Linux environment.

Slides and other material

Parallel R for Data Science

Abstract

This half-day session will cover parallel programming in R, with a focus on parallel data analysis. Topics covered will include snow, parallel, and foreach/doparallel.

Details

Time/date

Tuesday July 12, 2016, 13:30 - 16:30

Location

Wallberg Building, Room 119


Instructor

Dr. Erik Spence (SciNet)

Prerequisites

Experience with programming in R and a rudimentary understanding of parallel computing.

Slides and other material

Python for Scientific Computing

Abstract

In this half-day session, you will be taught how to use python for research computing purposes. Topics include: the basics of python, automation, numpy, scipy, file i/o, and visualization.

Details

Time/date'

Wednesday July 13, 9:30 - 12:30

Location

Wallberg Building, Room 119

Instructor

Dr. Erik Spence (SciNet)

Prerequisites

A bit of coding experience in any programming or scripting language. Command-line experience in Linux is a plus.

Slides and other material


Python for High Performance Computing

Abstract

This half-day session will cover parallel programming in python, with a focus on parallel data analysis. We will cover subprocess, multiprocessing, pypar and other parallel-enabling python packages.

Details

Time/date

Wednesday July 13, 2016, 13:30 - 16:30

Location

Wallberg Building, Room 119

Instructor

Dr. Ramses van Zon (SciNet)

Prerequisites

A bit of coding experience in any programming or scripting language. Command-line experience in Linux is a plus.

Slides and other material


Programming GPUs with CUDA

Abstract

This two-day session is an introductory course covering programming and computing on GPUs - graphics processing units - which are an increasingly common presence in massively parallel computing architectures. This session will cover both of the available C-like programming frameworks: NVIDIA’s CUDA C. The basics of GPU programming will be covered, and students will work through a number of hands on examples. Demonstrations of profiling and debugging applications running on the GPU will also be included. The structuring of data and computations that makes full use of the GPU will be discussed in detail. Students should be able to leave the course with the knowledge necessary to begin developing their own GPU applications.

Details

Time/date

Thursday July 14, 2016, 09:30 - 12:30
Thursday July 14, 2016, 13:30 - 16:30
Friday July 15, 2016, 09:30 - 12:30
Friday July 15, 2016, 13:30 - 16:30

Location

Wallberg Building, Room 116

Instructors Dr. Pawel Pomorski and Dr. Sergey Mashchenko (SHARCNET)

Prerequisites

C/C++ scientific programming, experience editing and compiling code in a Linux environment. Some experience with CUDA and/or OpenMP a plus.

Slides and other materials


Visualization

Abstract

The first part of this whole-day session will be a basic introduction to general-purpose scientific visualization tools such as gnuplot, grace(xmgr), remote tools (tunneling, VNC), python's matplotlib, and examples from other. The afternoon part will be a mix of lecture and hands-on to introduce more specialized scientific visualization software such as vmd, paraview, and visit.

Details

Time/date

Thursday July 14, 2016, 09:30 - 12:30
Thursday July 14, 2016, 13:30 - 16:30

Location

Wallberg Building, Room 119

Instructor Dr. Marcelo Ponce (SciNet)

Prerequisites

Software installed, for the morning session: gnuplot, xmgr (Grace,xmgr), ssh (graphic client), your favorite vnc client (egs. RealVNC,TightVNC), python and matplotlib (matplotlib); afternoon session: ParaView (ParaView) and VisIt (VisIt).

Slides and other material
Slides
Datasets

[ Morning datasets and scripts]

Afternoon dataset

Aneurysm dataset


Debugging

Abstract

Debugging is an important step in developing a new code, or porting an old one to a new machine. In this half-day session, we will discuss the debugging of frequently encountered bugs in serial code with gdb and the debugging of parallel (MPI and threaded) codes with DDT on live systems.

Details

Date/time

Friday July 15, 09:30 - 12:30

Location

Wallberg Building, Room 119

Note the different room number!


Instructors

Dr. Marcelo Ponce (SciNet)

Prerequisites

Basic familiarity with a high-level language (C/C++/Fortran) as well as compiling and running programs via the command line environment on a HPC system.


Slides and other material

Bring Your Own Code

Abstract

The final afternoon of the summer school is your chance to get help with your own code from the SciNet software analysts. Bring your code, explain your problem or concerns, and we'll give you advice and work with you to try to improve it.

Details

Date/time

Friday July 15, 2016, 13:30 - 16:30

Location

Wallberg Building, Room 119

Instructors

Various SciNet software analysts.

Prerequisites

None.