Introduction to Parallel Programming with MPI and OpenMP

Lecturer: Dr. Hinnerk Stüben

Location: Sedanstraße 19, room 317
Date: 06.-09.01.2025

Abstract

3.5 days course for PhD students of Graduiertenkolleg 2583 – Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Fluid Dynamic Applications.

Prerequisites

• programming experience in C/C++ or Fortran
• familiarity with Linux

Contents

• principles of parallel computing
  • parallel computer architectures
  • parallel programming models
  • efficiency of parallel programs
  • data dependence analysis
• programming with MPI (Message Passing Interface)
  • messages
  • point-to-point communication
  • collective communication
  • data types
  • reduction operations
  • one-sided communication
  • parallel I/O
• programming with OpenMP
  • threads
  • synchronization
  • parallelization of loops
• hybrid programming
  • combining MPI with OpenMP