SCHEDULE: NOV 12-18, 2011

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SESSION: PARALLEL: Introduction to MPI Point-to-Point Communication

EVENT TYPE: Education

TIME: 3:30PM - 5:00PM

SESSION CHAIR: Tom Murphy

Presenter(s):Thomas Murphy, Charlie Peck, Daniel Ernst, Henry Neeman

ROOM:WSCC 611/612/613/614

ABSTRACT:
This session gives a first introduction to distributed parallelism via MPI. Topics include: an analogy for understanding distributed parallelism (desert islands), which covers distributed execution, communication, message passing, independence, privacy, latency vs. bandwidth; parallel strategies (client-server, task parallelism, data parallelism, pipelining); the Message Passing Interface (structure of MPI calls, MPI program structure, Single Program/Multiple Data strategy, hello world, MPI runs, compiling for MPI, rank, indeterminism, MPI data types, tags, communicators. Prerequisite: "HPC Overview" session or equivalent. Assumed background: one semester of programming in any of C, C++ or Fortran, recently, one semester of experience with any Unix-like operating system (could be Linux but doesn't have to be), recently.

Chair/Presenter Details:

Tom Murphy (Chair) - Contra Costa College

Thomas Murphy - Contra Costa College

Charlie Peck - Earlham College

Daniel Ernst - Cray Inc.

Henry Neeman - University of Oklahoma

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