Meet Hands-On Session Prerequisites

Please prepare for the hand-on sessions by studying the following material.

Prerequisites for all sessions

• Basic Linux command line capabilities
• Know how to use a text editor on remote systems (vi, emacs, ...)
• General HPC background (see e.g., Generic HPC Material)
• Know how to compile a C/C++/Fortran program
  
• on Bridges (primary system for the summer school)
  
• on Comet (backup system)
  
• Install required software on your laptop and download necessary material, see Install Required Software and Data.
  

Parallel Programming: Classic Track

• See Bridges and Comet requirements under Prerequisites for all sessions.
• MPI
• Familiarity with basic MPI material as presented in the ARCHER UK National Supercomputing Service IHPCSS-2016-MPI YouTube Playlist found at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1b57Q937PoscKLrZxi1TqFplkf2RcHmk
  
• These are the associated slides and exercise material
• Overview
• Message-Passing Concepts
• Parallel Traffic Modelling
• Traffic Modelling exercise sheet
• Parallel Traffic Modelling: solution
• MPI Programs
• MPI exercise sheet (only exercises 1 and 2 are relevant here)
• Point-to-Point Communication
  
• OpenMP
• Familiarity with OpenMP material up to Work sharing directives lecture here.

Parallel Programming: Accelerator Track

• See Bridges and Comet requirements under Prerequisites for all sessions.

Scientific Visualization

• Review the Introduction to Visualization material at https://www.citutor.org/.
• You will need to register, but registration is free.
• You should select: browse courses, then look for and click on Introduction to Visualization -> Scientific Visualization

HPC Python Programming

• See Bridges and Comet requirements under Prerequisites for all sessions.
• Basic Programming in C or Fortran
• Basics of Parallel Programming
• Familiarity with python programming:
• Basic Python Programming
• Research Computing with Python (with recordings, slides, and exercises). Lectures 1 and 4 are of particular interest for our session.
  (See also the YouTube playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZRRlbOTxTmCaBYeLHQyqMFyI6caKsVDd)

Performance Analysis and Optimization

• See Bridges and Comet requirements under Prerequisites for all sessions.
• Optional: Review VI-HPS course material on the tutorial example, Score-P, TAU, Cube, and Scalasca