EuroCC@Greece HPC Training Series – Course 1 “HPC for beginners: basic concepts, MPI and OpenMP”, on March 29th, 2024

EuroCC@Greece announced the 1st Course of its brand new HPC Training Series with the subject “HPC for beginners: basic concepts, MPI and OpenMP”, which took place on March 29th, 2024.

 

Presentation language: Greek

 

Audience: Users (with a focus on engineers, developers, IT professionals, students, researchers) seeking to understand the basics of how parallel computing technologies MPI and OpenMP can improve the performance of their code.

 

Location: Online via Zoom

 

During the course, the following concepts were tackled:

  • Short history and general concepts of HPC & AI
  • Introduction to OpenMP, shared parallel model, basic constructs
  • Introduction to MPI (Message Programming Interface) / General concepts: Distributed memory parallelism, MPI process model, Global communication, Point-to-point communication, Non-blocking point-to-point communication

 

Watch the course’s recorded material here.

 

The course’s presentations can be found here.