Introduction to Parallel Programming with MPI and OpenMP (training course, on-site)
Ilya Zhukov, Jolanta Zjupa
(Course no. tba in the training programme 2026 of Forschungszentrum Jülich)
The course will take place in August. The exact dates will be announced.
This course will take place as an on-site and in-person event at JSC. It is not possible to attend online. The course will be held in English.
Course Content:
An introduction to the parallel programming of supercomputers is given. The focus is on the usage of the Message Passing Interface (MPI), the most often used programming model for systems with distributed memory. Furthermore, OpenMP will be presented, which is often used on shared-memory architectures.
The first four days of the course consist of lectures and short exercises. A fifth day is devoted to demonstrating the use of MPI and OpenMP in a larger context. To this end, starting from a simple but representative serial algorithm, a parallel version will be designed and implemented using the techniques presented in the course.
Topics covered:
- Fundamentals of Parallel Computing
- HPC system architectures
- shared and distributed memory concepts
- OpenMP
- basics
- parallel construct
- data sharing
- loop work sharing
- task work sharing
- MPI
- basics
- point-to-point communication
- collective communication
- blocking and non-blocking communication
- data types
- I/O
- communicators
- Hybrid programming
- Tools
Contents level | in hours | in % |
|---|---|---|
Beginner's contents: | 14,1 | 47 % |
Intermediate contents: | 9 | 30 % |
Advanced contents: | 6,9 | 23 % |
Community-targeted contents: | 0 | 0 % |
Prerequisites:
Knowledge of either C, C++, Python, or Fortran, basic knowledge of UNIX/Linux (incl. command line, Linux shell) and a UNIX standard editor (e.g. vi, emacs)
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Target Audience:
Supercomputer users
Language:
This course is given in English.
Duration:
5 days
Dates:
TBA, August 2026, 09:00-16:30 each day
Venue:
Jülich Supercomputing Centre, building 16.3, room 213a (Ausbildungsraum 1)
Number of Participants:
Minimum 5, maximum 26
Instructors:
Ilya Zhukov, Jolanta Zjupa, Junxian Chew, Michael Knobloch, Jan Andre Reuter (JSC)
Registration:
The registration for the course will open in January.
Contact:
Ilya Zhukov
HPC Application Analyst
- Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)
Room 323
