2nd Latin American School on Parallel Programming for High Performance Computing

The goal of the school is to teach scientists modern computer hardware and programming to provide a foundation for future computational research using High Performance Computing (HPC). Participants will go through an intensive programme with focus on practical skills.

Participants will learn how to improve the efficiency of their research codes, and to parallelize them. Lectures on a selection of technical aspects of modern HPC hardware will be mixed with introductions to widely used parallel programming tools and libraries. The hands-on sessions will allow participants to learn from examples of problems of general scientific interest. Topics will cover numerical methods and parallel strategies, as well as data management.

The programme specifically addresses the needs of scientists using, writing, or modifying HPC applications, and will not assume, require, or provide significant IT and HPC resource management skills. It will be mainly based on fundamental HPC-relevant features in widely used scientific software for high-performance computing.

There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for travel and local expenses.

The program will be available in November, 2019.

Topics:

• Computer architectures for HPC and optimization
• Parallel programming tools (MPI & OpenMP)
• Parallel programming best practices
• Floating-point math
• Profiling and Debugging
• Principles and Practices of Parallel SW Development

Organizers:

• Raphael Cobe (NCC-UNESP/AI2, Brazil)
• Ivan Girotto (ICTP-Trieste, Italy)
• Sergio F. Novaes (UNESP/AI2, Brazil)
• Silvio Luiz Stanzani (NCC-UNESP/AI2, Brazil)

Lecturers:

• Ivan Girotto (ICTP-Trieste, Italy)
• Axel Kohlmeyer (Temple University, Philadelphia, US)
• Gavin Pringle (EPCC, Edinburgh, UK)
• Silvio Luiz Stanzani (NCC-UNESP/AI2, Brazil)

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Announcement

Online application is now closed

School program: PDF updated on November 11, 2019

Material presented during the school: click here

Registration: ALL participants should register. The registration will be on December 02 (Monday) at the institute at 08:30 am.

List of Participants:  Updated on December 11, 2019

Visa information: Nationals from several countries in Latin America and Europe, Australia, Canada, Japan and USA are exempt from tourist visa. Please check here which nationals need a tourist visa to enter Brazil. Please check here which nationals need a tourist visa to enter Brazil.

Accommodation: Participants, whose accommodation will be provided by the institute, will stay at The Universe Flat. Hotel recommendations are available here

How to reach the Institute: The school will be held at ICTP South American Institute, located at IFT-UNESP, which is across the street from a major bus and subway terminal (Terminal Barra Funda). The address which is closer to the entrance of the IFT-UNESP building is R. Jornalista Aloysio Biondi, 120 – Barra Funda, São Paulo. The easiest way to reach us is by subway or bus, please find instructions here.

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