Message Passing Programming with MPI
Dates: 28-30 November 2018
Location: University of Newcastle
Draft materials based on a previous run of this course: may be subject to change.
Lecture Slides
Unless otherwise indicated all material is Copyright © EPCC, The University of Edinburgh, and is only made available for private study.
Day 1
- ARCHER and the training programme
- Overview of MPI course
- Message-Passing Concepts
- Parallel Traffic Modelling
- Parallel Traffic Modelling: solution
- MPI Programs
- MPI on Cirrus and ARCHER (only Cirrus relevant for this course)
- Point-to-Point Communication
- Communicators, Tags and Modes
Day 2
Day 3
- Case Study
- Dynamic Memory Allocation in C
- MPI Quiz - enter the Room Name HPCQUIZ
- MPI Design
- MPI Scaling
Notes
Exercise Material
Unless otherwise indicated all material is Copyright © EPCC, The University of Edinburgh, and is only made available for private study.
- Traffic modelling exercise sheet
- Instructions for logging on, compiling and running on Cirrus
- Useful files and pieces of code: MPP-templates.tar
- MPI exercise sheet
- Detailed solutions to pi calculation example
- Simple example solutions to all exercises
- Case Study exercise sheet
- Case Study source code
- Simple Case Study solutions (serial)
- Simple Case Study solutions (parallel)
- Code for dynamic array allocation in C
- Serial and parallel solutions to the traffic model
