Courses lectured over several afternoons at NTNU will give an introduction to parallel programming.

About

All courses are free of charge.
All lectures are held in English.
All courses are held twice every year (February and September). 

Topics covered

• A walk through of cluster architectures. Amdahl's vs Gustafsons law. Simple MPI-calls, programs with MPI-collective
• OpenMP Programming for CPU and GPU, and hybrid programming (MPI/OpenMP). (OpenMP for GPU is only in September)
• MPI: Programming examples and Algorithms .
• (Only in February) Parallel Matlab Programming and distributed Matlab using MPI. Examples with parallel R and parallel Python. Examples using Deep learing in Matlab.
• Introduction to Jupyter Notebooks is a tutorial showing the basic use of Python in a Jupyter Notebook

Registration

Send an e-mail to: adm@hpc.ntnu.no
(Please add your NTNU User Name in the Registration Email)

Preparations

• Install a Matlab Client on your laptop. See http://www.ntnu.no/adm/it/orakel and software.ntnu.no
• Remember to bring your own laptop.
• For Window users: Please install a ssh client, like X-Win32 (which you find in software.ntnu.no), or PuTTY with an X-server on your computer e.g. Xming
• The MPI course consists of two parts: an introduction to MPI and a second part that covers a lot of the examples from the IBM's Redbook "Practical MPI programming", Practical MPI Programming - IBM Redbook
• Course materials