High-performance scientific computing in C++ (training course, online)

Start
28th October 2024 08:00 AM
End
31st October 2024 15:30 PM
Location
online
Contact

Dr. Sandipan Mohanty

(Course no. 1262024 in the training programme 2024 of Forschungszentrum Jülich)

Contents:

Modern C++, with its support for procedural, objected oriented, generic and functional programming styles, offers many powerful abstraction mechanisms to express complexity at a high level while remaining very efficient. It is therefore the language of choice for many scientific projects. The approval of the latest language standard, C++20, has also opened up new abstraction layers and new exciting ways to organize code at all levels. However, achieving high performance by today's standards requires understanding and exploiting multiple levels of parallelism, as well as understanding C++ code from a performance centric viewpoint.

In this course, the participants will learn how to write C++ programs which better utilize typical HPC hardware resources of the present day. The course is geared towards scientists and engineers already familiar with C++17, who wish to develop maintainable and fast applications. Since C++20 is a relatively large structural change of the C++ language, similar to C++11, novel ways to write expressive, maintainable and fast code are now available to C++ programmers, which will be introduced in the course. The participants will learn techniques to better utilize CPU caches, instruction pipelines, SIMD functionality and multi-threading. Shared memory parallel programming on multiple CPU cores will be introduced using standard C++ parallel STL and Intel (R) Threading Building Blocks. The participants will also learn basic GPGPU programming using C++ template based generic programming techniques.

Contents level

in hours

in %

Beginner's contents:

0 h

0 %

Intermediate contents:

9.5 h

40 %

Advanced contents:

14.5 h

60 %

Community-targeted contents:

0 h

0 %

Prerequisites:

Good working knowledge of C++, especially the C++17 standard.

Target audience:

Advanced C++ programmers who want to use C++ on high-performance systems

Language:

This course is given in English.

Duration:

4 days

Date:

28-31 October 2024, 09:00-16:30

mornings: 3 lectures with very short exercises - 09:00-10:00, 10:15-11:15, 11:30-12:30
afternoons: intensive exercises - 13:30-16:30

Venue:

online

Number of Participants:

minimum 5, maximum 26

Instructor:

Dr. Sandipan Mohanty, JSC

Contact:

  • Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS)
  • Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)
Building 14.14 /
Room 4011
+49 2461/61-2526
E-Mail

Registration:

Please register via the registration form until 14 October.

Course material of the last course:

Slides and exercises

Last Modified: 24.07.2024