Description
This will be the first installment in a series of international schools aimed at training students, researchers and professionals from private and public sectors in optimal parallel programing for HPC environments with heterogeneous infrastructure, thus stimulating the use of these technologies in Latin America and the world.
The school uses a hands-on approach, in which the participants will learn by developing parallel applications, presenting them with the opportunity for constructive cooperation with programmers from abroad as well as other fields of interest, under the guidance of worldwide recognized experts in the field.
The summer school will take place at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, from June 5th to 9th, 2018.
Objective
The aim of the HPC Summer School is to introduce the cornerstone of programming tools and techniques used for efficient parallel applications with special emphasis to High Performance Computing for students and professionals, among the fields of engineering and science, with basic and intermediate programming skills. This will allow them to advance their careers by harnessing the computational power of HPC to tackle large scale problems in their respective fields. Following from the school initiative, the event intends to accomplish the creation of collaborative interdisciplinary groups and the education of the next generation of highly specialized programmers. Ultimately, procuring innovative and efficient algorithms to optimally process all kinds of workflows.
Specific objectives
- Present the programing and execution environments.
- Introduce the use of high-level languages or HPC environments.
- Present strategies and interfaces for shared memory parallel programing on CPU and GPGPU arquitectures.
- Provide networking opportunities and encourage the development of a community in the field of HPC.
Target public
Students, researchers and professionals interested in the development of solutions that require great computational power.
Methodology
Introductory talks followed by hands-on workshops.