Introduction to HPC

  • doc.dr. Leon Kos, University of Ljubljana, University of Ljubljana
  • September 2013

Slide contents

  • 25 members of PRACE
  • Computing tshares in the TOP500 list
  • Large HPC systems around the world
  • Computing tshares in the TOP500 list
  • Large HPC systems around the world
  • FZJ
  • LRZ
  • BSC and CINECA
  • What HPCFS is used for?
  • Software at HPCFS
  • Hardware of the cluster PRELOG at ULFME
  • Software at HPCFS
  • Hardware of the cluster PRELOG at ULFME
  • Introduction to parallel computing
  • Parallel programming models
  • Embarrasingly simple parallel processing
  • View of a computing node
  • Nodes interconnect
  • Development of parallel codes
  • Interprocess communications
  • Parallel portion of the code determines code scalability
  • Questions and practicals on the HPCFS cluster