Blue Waters 2011 Petascale Institute
Day 02 - Introduction to MPI
Conceptual Session ( 8:15 - 10:30 )
- Computational Thinking (RP 45 min)
- Desert Island (AFG 30 min) and introduction to distributed memory parallelism (HN 60 min)
- Distributed Memory Overview ( .pdf / .ppt )
Break ( 10:30 - 10:45 )
Practical Session ( 10:45 - 12:15 )
-
An Introduction to the Message Passing Interface (TM 45 min)
- Point-to-Point communication
- The 6 Essential Commands (that you can't live without).
- Roy Campbell - Graduate school information session (45 min)
Lunch ( 12:15 - 1:15 )
Lab Session ( 1:15 - 3:15 )
- Introductory MPI Examples
Break ( 3:15 - 3:30 )
Review, Resolve, Preview Session ( 3:30 - 5:00 )
- Debugging with the GNU Debugger (GDB) and printf
- Preventing and Finding Bugs in Parallel Programs ( pdf)
Dinner ( 5:15 - 6:15 )
Evening Lab Session
Activities
- Daily Survey
-
MPI - Area under the Curve
- Coding
- Debugging
Materials
Daily Resources
- Bob Wilhelmson's storm supercomputing presentation ( ppt | pdf )
- Data ( .xls )
- Taxonomy of Parallelism ( .pdf )
- Debugging MPI programs ( .pdf )
- Hello World ( .c / .f90 )
- Greetings ( .c / .f )
- MPI Send/Receive ( .pdf )
- Duck Duck Goose ( .pdf )
- Scatter Gather example ( .c )
Supplemental Resources
- Using a local text editor. ( .txt )
- MPI
- GDB