Training Introduction to the use of Cholesky

1 févr. 2023, 13:30 → 2 févr. 2023, 17:30 Europe/Paris

Jean Lascoux

Aurélien CANOU, Yannick FITAMANT (CNRS)

2nd session - Training Introduction to the use of Cholesky

Audience : CPHT/CMAP/CMLS/LPP/LMS PhD and post-docs

Duration : 8 hours (1 session on 2 afternoons)

Date : February 1 and February 2, 2023 from 1.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.

Location: Ecole Polytechnique / Aile 0 / Jean Lascoux conference room

Maximum number of people : 10

Prerequisites :

• hardware: 1 laptop (Apple Macbook, PC / Linux)
• knowledge: basic commands of the Unix / Linux terminal

Training program :

• 1st Half day

1. Introduction to parallel programming
   • Context
   • Parallel computing architecture
2. General informations about Cholesky
   • Organization of compute resources
   • Cholesky Project
   • Connection and transfer of file(s)
3. Software environment
   • Hierarchical modules
   • Conda environment for Python
4. Compiling and running jobs
   • Compilation principle
   • SLURM scheduler
   • Run a job

• 2nd half day

1. Introduction to shared memory programming: OpenMP
2. Introduction to distributed memory programming: MPI

Trainer :

• A. Canou (CPHT)
• L. Series (CMAP)