XSEDE Big Data Hands-On Summer Bootcamp

Arizona State University Research Computing is collaborating with Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center to host a free, four-day, hands-on Big Data summer bootcamp for faculty members, staff and students on Monday through Thursday, June 4–7.

Attendees will leave with a working knowledge of MPI, OpenMP, OpenACC and accelerators that could run on either XSEDE’s and/or ASU’s high-performance computing environments.

Attendees will be invited to join a three-week special hybrid exercise contest, vying for the fifth annual XSEDE Summer Boot Camp Championship trophy!

XSEDE is the most advanced, powerful and robust collection of integrated digital resources and services in the world. It is a single virtual system that scientists and researchers can use to interactively share computing resources, data and expertise. XSEDE integrates the resources and services, makes them easier to use, and helps more people use them.

Agenda

June 4

8 a.m. — Welcome

8:15 a.m. — Computing environment

8:45 a.m. — Intro to parallel computing

9:30 a.m. — Intro to OpenMP

10:30  a.m.  — Lunch break

11:30 a.m. — Exercise 1 (zip folder of all exercises)

12:15 p.m. — More OpenMP

1:30 p.m. — Exercise 2

2 p.m. — Adjourn

June 5

8 a.m. — Intro to OpenACC

9 a.m. — Exercise 1

9:30 a.m. — Intro to OpenACC, continue

10 a.m. — Lunch break

11 a.m. — Exercise 2

11:45 a.m. — Intro to OpenACC, continue

Noon — Using OpenACC with CUDA Libraries

12:30 p.m. — Advanced OpenACC

1 p.m. — OpenMP 4.0 sneak peek

2 p.m. — Adjourn

June 6

8 a.m. — Intro to MPI

10 a.m. — Lunch break

11 a.m. — Intro exercises

12:10 p.m. — Intro exercises review

12:15 p.m. — Scalable Programming: Laplace code

12:45 p.m. — Laplace exercise

2 p.m. — Adjourn

June 7

8 a.m. — Laplace exercise, continue

9:30 — Laplace solution

10 a.m. — Lunch break

11 a.m. — Advanced MPI

Noon — Outro to parallel computing

1 p.m. — Parallel tools

1:20 p.m. — Hybrid computing

1:40 p.m. — Hybrid competition

2 p.m. — Adjourn

This workshop is being offered for free to students, staff and faculty members.

Registration

To ensure participation in this workshop, please use the following link to register for the Arizona State University Summer Boot Camp session: https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar

Important note: You will need to create an XSEDE portal account in order to register for this free workshop.

Once you have completed the XSEDE workshop registration, you will be granted access to one of the XSEDE computational clusters and all of the needed workshop materials.

Questions

Questions related to XSEDE workshops: Please address any questions to Tom Maiden at tmaiden@psc.edu.

Questions related to the ASU hosting of this event: Please address any questions to Barnaby Wasson at Barnaby@asu.edu.

For additional information about ASU’s high performance computing (HPC) environments and services, please visit the ASU Research Computing site.