cscs2017

Task based Programming with HPX Workshop

Event Details

Location/ Date

CSCS in Lugano, Switzerland

Thursday, October 5 and Friday, October 6, 2017

Presenters

• John Biddiscombe, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS)
• Thomas Heller, Computer Architecture, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg

https://stellar-group.github.io/tutorials/cscs2017
https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/tutorials

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Thursday, October 5, 2017

• 9:00 to 10:30: Introduction to HPX - Part 1 (overview)
• Tea Break, 15 Minutes
• 10:45 to 12:15: Introduction to HPX - Part 2 (API)
• Lunch, 1 hour
• 13:15 to xx:xx: Building HPX - CMake Options and Dependencies
• xx:xx to 14:45: Hello World! - Options and Running Applications
• Tea Break, 15 Minutes
• 15:00 to 16:40: Worked 2D Stencil Example - From Serial to Distributed

Friday, October 6, 2017

• 9:00 to 10:30: Resource Management and Performance Issues
• Tea Break, 15 Minutes
• 10:45 to 12:15: Upcoming and Experimental Features
• Lunch, 1 hour
• 13:15 to 14:45: Debugging HPX Applications
• Tea Break, 15 Minutes
• 15:00 to 16:30: Open for worked examples

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Acknowledgements

• Hartmut Kaiser (LSU)
• Bryce Lelbach (LBNL)
• Agustin Berge
• Patrick Diehl (Bonn)
• Matrin Stumpf (FAU)
• Arne Hendricks (FAU)
• Parsa Amini (LSU)
• And many others...

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Course setup

Wifi : Please see handouts, use eduroam if possible

Login : Logins for daint on handout sheet

ssh ela.cscs.ch
ssh daint```

**Reservation** : Course logins (and cscs staff) can use
```sh
scontrol show res hpx1
scontrol show res hpx2

Tutorial repo : Please login to daint and clone the tutorial repo there

git clone https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/tutorials```

**Shell setup** : For building examples we will be using clang compiler on daint and
you will need a module for HPX
```sh
source /apps/daint/UES/6.0.UP04/HPX/clang-setup.sh
module load /apps/daint/UES/6.0.UP04/HPX/hpx-clang```