Dear HPC users, There are still free places for the following PRACE Advanced Training Centre (PATC) events @ LRZ, Germany: PRACE PATC Course: Node-Level Performance Engineering Date: Thursday, December 1 - Friday, December 2, 2016, 9:00 - 17:00 Registration deadline: November 17, 2016 Lecturer: Prof. Gerhard Wellein (RRZE), Dr. Georg Hager (RRZE) Topics: Performance engineering as a process, topology and affinity in muticore systems, microbenchmarking for architectural exploration, the roofline model, model-guided optimization, programming for optimal use of parallel resources, pattern-guided performance engineering, energy-efficient code execution Details: https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/531/ PRACE PATC Course: Introduction to hybrid programming in HPC Date: Thursday, January 12, 2017 10:00 - 17:00 Registration deadline: December 29, 2016 Lecturer: Dr. Georg Hager (RRZE), Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner (HLRS, member of the steering committee of the MPI-3 forum) Topics: Combining the distributed memory parallelization on the node interconnect (e.g., with MPI) with the shared memory parallelization inside of each node (e.g., with OpenMP or MPI-3.0 shared memory), strengths and weaknesses of several parallel programming models on clusters of SMP nodes, various hybrid MPI+OpenMP approaches, numerous case studies and micro-benchmarks, tools for hybrid programming Details: https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/533/ Please also pass this course announcement to other interested colleagues. Information on further HPC courses: - by LRZ: http://www.lrz.de/services/compute/courses/ - by the Gauss Centre of Supercomputing (GCS): http://www.gauss-centre.eu/training - by the PRACE Advanced Training Centres (PATCs): http://www.training.prace-ri.eu/ Kind regards, Volker Weinberg -- Dr. Volker Weinberg Leibniz-Rechenzentrum der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften - High Performance Computing Group - email: weinberg@lrz.de<mailto:weinberg@lrz.de> address: Boltzmannstr. 1 - D-85748 Garching bei Muenchen room: E.1.016 phone: +49 (89) 35831-8863