Task-based parallelism in scientific computing (HPC2N/PRACE, May 2021)

Name	Task-based parallelism in scientific computing (HPC2N/PRACE, May 2021)
Description	Task-based parallelism in scientific computing
Type of event	Course
Location	Online, organized from Umeå
Start date	2021-05-10
End date	2021-05-12

Course overview

The purpose of the course is to learn when a code could benefit from task-based parallelism, and how to apply it. A task-based algorithm does not call the associated computation kernels directly, instead it is the role of a runtime system to schedule the task to various computational resources, such as CPUs and GPUs. The main benefit is that the underlying parallelism is exposed automatically. The course mainly focuses on the task-pragmas implemented in the newer incarnations of OpenMP. Other task-based runtime systems, e.g., StarPU, and GPU offloading are briefly discussed.

This course will be three half-days. It will have lectures as well as some hands-on sessions where you get to try out what you have just learned.

NOTE: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the course will be fully online, through Zoom.

This HPC2N/SNIC course is part of the PRACE Training courses. It is open for participants from PRACE member countries.

Course web page and registration

For more information and registration refer to the course webpage