IT Center Events

IT Center Infotag 2016
2016-01-20 09:00 - 15:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Seminarraum 003/004, IT Center, Kopernikusstraße 6, Aachen
This entry is only available in Deutsch. Name: IT Center Infotag 2016: “eScience” Schwerpunkt Forschungsdatenmanagement

Veranstaltungsart: Informationsveranstaltung
Datum: 20. Januar 2016

Uhrzeit: 09:00 – 15:30 Uhr
Ort: IT Center der RWTH Aachen

Zielgruppe: Interessierte

Beschreibung
Der zweite Infotag unter dem Motto „eScience“ mit dem thematischen Schwerpunkt „Forschungsdatenmanagement“ fand am 20. Januar 2016 ab 09.00 Uhr mit dem Programmende gegen 15:30 Uhr im Seminarraum 003/004 und Foyer des IT Centers, Dienstgebäude Kopernikusstraße 6 statt.

Agenda
09:00 – 09:10 Uhr
Begrüßung
Manfred Nettekoven, Kanzler der RWTH Aachen
Prof. Dr. Matthias S. Müller, Direktor IT Center
09:10 – 09:40 Uhr
Forschungsdatenmanagement in NRW, Stand und Ausblick
Albert Bilo, CIO, Direktor der Universitätsbibliothek, Universität Duisburg-Essen
09:40 – 10:10 Uhr
Forschungsdatenmanagement in interdisziplinären Forschungsprojekten: Ein Erfahrungsbericht
Prof. Dr. Georg Bareth, Geographisches Institut, Universität zu Köln
10:10 – 10:30 Uhr
Forschungsdatenmanagement an der RWTH Aachen, Stand und Ausblick
Benedikt Magrean, Geschäftsführer IT Center
Pause & Speakers Corner (Das Ticketportal des IT-ServiceDesk)
11:00 – 11:20 Uhr
Hochleistungsrechnen am IT Center – Service motiviert die Forschung, Forschung belebt den Service
Dirk Schmidl, IT Center
11:20 – 11:40 Uhr
Claix – Cluster Aix-la-Chapelle
Prof. Dr. Matthias S. Müller, Direktor IT Center
11:40 – 12:00 Uhr
Erneuerung des Archiv- und Backup-Systems
Michael Behnke, IT Center
12:00 – 12:20 Uhr
Mit SAM im Gleichgewicht
Jutta Friedrich, AVT-Systemverfahrenstechnik.
Petra Schmitz, Dezernat Organisation und IT (ZHV)
Mittagspause & Speakers Corner (13.30 Uhr: Qualitätsmanagement und seine Folgen)
14:00 – 14:20 Uhr
Herausforderungen und Lösungswege bei der Integration von RWTHonline in die IT-System-landschaft der RWTH
Christoph Becker, Abteilungsleiter IT-Prozessunterstützung
14:20 – 14:40 Uhr
Multi-Channel-Communication: Veränderungen in der Kundenkommunikation und -information im IT Center
Sarah Grzemski, Abteilungsleiterin IT-ServiceDesk
14:40 – 15:00 Uhr
Innovationen im Datennetz der Zukunft an der RWTH Aachen
Christoph Viethen, IT Center
15:00 – 15:20 Uhr
Spam, Phishing & Co
Guido Bunsen, IT Manager Security
Neben den Vorträgen und der Poster-Ausstellung blieb hinreichend viel Raum für Einzelgespräche und Diskussionen. Dazu wurden Führungen in der Maschinenhalle und der aixCAVE (Kunst trifft virtuelle Realität) angeboten.

RWTH Adminrunde Dezember 2015
2015-12-14 12:00 - 14:00 | IEHK | Raum H201
This entry is only available in Deutsch. Name: RWTH Adminrunde Dezember 2015

Veranstaltungsart: Informationsveranstaltung

Datum: 14. Dezember 2015

Uhrzeit: 12:00 bis 14:00 Uhr
Ort: IEHK | Raum H201

Zielgruppe: Alle Interessierten

Beschreibung
Die Adminrunde fand am 14.12.2015 von von 12:00 – 14:00 Uhr im Raum H201 (IEHK) statt.
Allgemeine Infos zur RWTH Adminrunde

Agenda

Begrüßung und Vorstellung der Agenda
12:00 – 12:20 Uhr Institutebaukasten und RWTH Intranet
12:20 – 12:40 Uhr Aktueller Stand SAM
12:40 – 12:50 Uhr Informationen zum neuen Backup System und Backup Portal
12:50 – 13:00 Uhr Aktuelles aus der Informationssicherheit – Schwachstellenscans und Eduroam Gerätemanagement
13:00 – 13:10 Uhr Neues aus dem IT-Servicedesk – Kurzvorstellung Chat Support
13:10 – 13:20 Uhr Zukunft WinHPC
13:20 – 13:30 Uhr Hallenumzug
13:30 – 14:00 Uhr Diskussion
Kollaborationsplattform für IT-Admins der RWTH

Veranstaltungsunterlagen
Die Folien der Sitzung sind im RWTH Intranet zu finden.

RWTH Adminrunde September 2015
2015-09-28 10:00 - 12:00 | IEHK | Raum H201
This entry is only available in Deutsch. Name: RWTH Adminrunde September 2015

Veranstaltungsart: Informationsveranstaltung

Datum: 28. September 2015

Uhrzeit: 10:00 bis 12:00 Uhr
Ort: IEHK | Raum H201

Zielgruppe: Alle Interessierten

Beschreibung
Diese Adminrunde fand von 10:00 – 12:00 Uhr im Raum H201 (IEHK) statt.
Allgemeine Infos zur RWTH Adminrunde

Agenda

10:00 – 10:30 Uhr IPv6 – aktueller Stand und Folgen für Admins
10:30 – 10:50 Uhr E-Mail Zertifikate – Motivation und Umsetzung
10:50 – 11:10 Uhr Institutebaukasten und RWTH Intranet vertagt!
11:10 – 11:20 Uhr Informationen zum neuen Backup System
11:20 – 11:30 Uhr kurzer Erfahrungsbericht zu Sciebo (Nutzungszahlen, Nutzungsszenarien) ggfs. Info zu Projektboxen
11:30 – 11:40 Uhr aktueller Stand SAM
11:40 – 11:50 Uhr Aktuelles aus der Informationssicherheit
11:40 – 11:50 Uhr Diskussion
Kollaborationsplattform für IT-Admins der RWTH vertagt!

Veranstaltungsunterlagen
Die Folien der Sitzung sind im RWTH Intranet zu finden.

RWTH Adminrunde Juni 2015
2015-06-22 10:00 - 12:00 | IEHK | Raum H201
This entry is only available in Deutsch. Name: RWTH Adminrunde Juni 2015

Veranstaltungsart: Informationsveranstaltung

Datum: 22. Juni 2015

Uhrzeit: 10:00 bis 12:00 Uhr
Ort: IEHK | Raum H201

Zielgruppe: Alle Interessierten

Beschreibung
Diese Adminrunde fand von 10:00 – 12:00 Uhr im Raum H201 (IEHK) statt.
Allgemeine Infos zur RWTH Adminrunde

Agenda

Begrüßung und Vorstellung der Agenda
10:00 – 10:20 Uhr Aktueller Stand SAM Projekt
10:20 – 11:00 Uhr Ticketsystem OTRS am IEHK
11:00 – 11:20 Uhr Hinweise zum Erstellen von Multimediainhalten
11:20 – 11:30 Uhr Informationen zum neuen Backup System
11:40 – 12:00 Uhr Diskussion / Sonstiges / Puffer

Veranstaltungsunterlagen
Die Folien der Sitzung sind im RWTH Intranet zu finden.

RWTH Adminrunde April 2015
2015-04-27 10:00 - 12:00 | IEHK | Raum H201
This entry is only available in Deutsch. Name: RWTH Adminrunde April 2015

Veranstaltungsart: Informationsveranstaltung

Datum: 27. April 2015

Uhrzeit: 10:00 bis 12:00 Uhr
Ort: IEHK | Raum H201

Zielgruppe: Alle Interessierten

Beschreibung
Diese Adminrunde fand am 27.04.2015 vom 10:00 – 12:00 Uhr im Raum H201 (IEHK) statt.
Allgemeine Infos zur RWTH Adminrunde

Agenda

Begrüßung und Vorstellung der Agenda
10:00 – 10:20 Uhr Aktuelles zum Thema SAM
10:20 – 11:00 Uhr Vorstellung Self Service Portal „Interface Admin“
11:00 – 11:20 Uhr Roadmap PuL / RWTHOnline
11:20 – 11:30 Uhr Das neue Ticketportal in HelpLine
11:30 – 11:40 Uhr Aktuelles zu Sciebo
11:40 – 11:50 Uhr Aktuelles aus der Informationssicherheit
11:50 – 12:00 Uhr Intel-PCs im IT-Admin-Shop
11:40 – 12:00 Uhr Diskussion / Sonstiges / Puffer

Veranstaltungsunterlagen
Die Folien der Sitzung sind im RWTH Intranet zu finden.

PPCES 2015
2015-03-16 - 2015-03-20
Parallel Programming in Computational Engineering and Science 2015

kindly supported by:

HPC Seminar and Workshop
March, Monday 16 – March , Friday 20, 2015

IT Center RWTH Aachen University
Kopernikusstraße 6, Seminar Room 3 + 4

Course Materials

Klicken Sie hier, um zu erweitern…

2015-OpenMP_for_Accelerators.pdf
2015_ppces_phi.pdf
2015_TotalView.pdf
ex_omp_ppces2015.tar.gz
Fex_omp_ppces2015.tar.gz
LIKWID_PPCES_2015.pdf

mpilab2015.tar
OneKernelFor3Platforms_PPCES2015.7z.002 OneKernelFor3Platforms_PPCES2015.7z.001 (the file OneKernelFor3Platforms_PPCES2015.pdf was too big for confluence..)

OpenMP_SIMD.pdf

PPCES2015_MPI_Correctness_Tools.pptx
PPCES2015_MPI_Lab.pdf
PPCES2015_MPI_Tutorial.pdf
PPCES2015_MPI_Vampir.pdf
PPCES2015_OpenACC.pdf
PPCES2015_OpenACC-Lab.tar.gz
PPCES2015_OpenACC_ProgrammingLab.pdf
PPCES2015_OpenMP_part1.pdf
PPCES2015_OpenMP_part2.pdf

Introduction
This event will continue the tradition of previous annual week-long events that take place in Aachen every spring since 2001. Previous PPCES event was PPCES 2014.
Throughout the week, we will cover parallel programming using MPI (Monday and Tuesday) and OpenMP (Wednesday and Thursday) in Fortran and C / C++ as well as performance tuning. Furthermore, we will introduce the participants to GPGPU programming with OpenACC (Friday). Hands-on exercises for each topic will be provided, which should not discourage you from working on your own code.
The topics are presented in a modular way, so that you could pick specific ones and register for the particular days only, in order to let you invest your time as efficiently as possible.

Agenda
Please find agenda here >>>

Registration Please note in your registration if you take part in Social Event – Thank you!

Mo, March 16: Message Passing with MPI – Day I Registration open here

Tu, March 17: Message Passing with MPI – Day II Registration open here

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is the de-facto standard for programming large HPC clusters. We will introduce the basic concepts and give an overview of some advanced features. Also covered is hybrid parallelization, i.e. the combination of MPI and shared memory programming, which is gaining popularity as the number of cores per cluster node grows. Furthermore, we will introduce the TotalView debugger and a selection of performance and correctness tools (Score-P, Vampir, MUST).

We, March 18: Shared Memory Programming with OpenMP – Day I Registration open here

Th, March 19: Shared Memory Programming with OpenMP – Day II Registration open here

OpenMP http://openmp.org/ is a widely used approach for programming shared memory architectures, supported by most compilers nowadays. We will cover the basics of the programming paradigm as well as some advanced topics such as programming NUMA machines. We will also cover a selection of performance and verification tools for OpenMP. The RWTH Compute Cluster comprises a large number of big SMP machines (up to 128 cores and 2 TB of main memory) as we consider shared memory programming a vital alternative for applications that cannot be easily parallelized with MPI. We also expect a growing number of application codes to combine MPI and OpenMP for clusters of nodes with a growing number of cores.
Furthermore, we will introduce the participants to modern features of the OpenMP 4.0 standard like vectorisation and programming for accelerators and for the Many Integrated Core (MIC) Architecture.
Guest lectures and case studies complete these day’s program.

Fr, March 20: GPGPU Programming with OpenACC Registration open here

OpenACC is a directive-based programming model for accelerators which enables delegating the responsibility for low-level (e.g. CUDA or OpenCL) programming tasks to the compiler. Using the OpenACC industry standard, the programmer can offload compute-intensive loops to an attached accelerator with little effort. The open industry standard OpenACC has been introduced in November 2011 and supports accelerating regions of code in standard C, C++ and Fortran. It provides portability across operating systems, host CPUs and accelerators.
During this workshop day, we will give an overview on OpenACC while focusing on NVIDIA GPUs. We will introduce the GPU architecture. Then, we will dive into OpenACC and learn about its possibilities to accelerate code regions. We will cover topics such as offloading loops, managing data movement between host and device, tuning data movement and accesses, applying loop schedules, using multiple GPUs or interoperate with CUDA libraries. Hands-on sessions are done on the RWTH Aachen GPU (Fermi) Cluster using PGI’s OpenACC implementation.

There will be a sponsored social dinner on Wednesday, March 18 at 19:00 in Restaurant Palladion Aachen
Please register here for Part III of PPCES 2015 (Please mark if you like to attend the social dinner on Wed, March 18, 19:00)

Speakers

Ruud van der Pas, Oracle
Thomas Roehl, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Regionales RechenZentrum Erlangen (RRZE)
Bernd Dammann, Technical University of Denmark, DTU Informatics
Members of the HPC Team, IT Center RWTH Aachen University

Participants
Attendees should be comfortable with C/C++ or Fortran programming and interested in learning more about the technical details of application tuning and parallelization. The presentations will be given in English.

Material

Poster
Flyer

Fotos >>>>

Costs
There is no seminar fee. All other costs (e.g. travel, hotel, and consumption) are at your own expenses.
Links

The previous PPCES 2014 event (You can find 2014’s course videos here >>> )

The RWTH Compute Cluster User’s Guide
Location

RWTH Aachen University
IT Center, Extension Building
Kopernikusstraße 6, 52074 Aachen
Seminar Room 3 + 4

Travel Information
Please make your own hotel reservation. You may find a list of hotels in Aachen on the web pages of Aachen Tourist Service. We recommend that you try to book a room at the “Novotel Aachen City“, ” Mercure am Graben” or “Aachen Best Western Regence” hotels. These are nice hotels with reasonable prices within walking distance (20-30 minutes, citymap.pdf) from the IT Center through the old city of Aachen. An alternative is the “IBIS Aachen Marschiertor” hotel which is close to the main station, which is convenient if you are traveling by train and also want to commute to the Center by train (4 trains per hour, 2 stops)
Please, download a sketch of the city (pdf, 415 KB) with some points of interest marked.
You may find a description of how to reach us by plane, train or car here.
Bus routes 33 and 73 connect the city (central bus station) and the stop “Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße” 6 times per hour.
Most trains between Aachen and Düsseldorf stop at “Aachen West” station which is a 5 minutes walk away from the IT Center.
From the bus stop and the train station just walk uphill the “Seffenter Weg”. The first building on the lefthand side at the junction with “Kopernikusstraße” is the IT Center, RWTH Aachen University. The event will take place in the extension building in the “Kopernikusstraße”.
The weather in Aachen is usually unpredictable. It is always a good idea to carry an umbrella. If you’ll bring one, it might be sunny!
Contact
Paul Kapinos
Tel.: +49 241 80 24915
Fax/UMS: + 49 241 80 624915
E-mail: hpcevent@itc.rwth-aachen.de

RWTH Adminrunde Februar 2015
2015-02-23 10:00 - 12:00 | IEHK | Raum H201
This entry is only available in Deutsch. Name: RWTH Adminrunde Februar 2015

Veranstaltungsart: Informationsveranstaltung

Datum: 23. Februar 2015

Uhrzeit: 10:00 bis 12:00 Uhr
Ort: IEHK | Raum H201

Zielgruppe: Alle Interessierten

Beschreibung
Diese Adminrunde fand am 23.02.2015 von 10:00 – 12:00 Uhr im Raum 201 (IEHK) statt.
Allgemeine Infos zur RWTH Adminrunde

Agenda

Begrüßung und Vorstellung der Agenda
10:00 – 10:20 Uhr Aktuelles zum Thema SAM vertagt!
10:20 – 10:40 Uhr Institutsbaukasten und/oder RWTH Intranet
10:40 – 11:00 Uhr Vorstellung SSE Lab
11:00 – 11:10 Uhr Ergebnisse der Umfrage des IT-SD
11:10 – 11:20 Uhr Aktuelles zu Sync&Share NRW / Sciebo
11:20 – 11:30 Uhr Information zu den laufenden Security Scans
11:30 – 11:40 Uhr Änderungen am zentralen Mailsystem
11:30 – 11:40 Uhr Information zu den Self Service Portalen im Netzbereich vertagt!
11:40 – 12:00 Uhr Diskussion / Sonstiges / Puffer

Veranstaltungsunterlagen
Die Folien der Sitzung sind im RWTH Intranet zu finden.

IT Center Infotag 2015
2015-01-21 09:00 - 15:30 | Seminarraum 003/004, IT Center, Kopernikusstraße 6, Aachen
This entry is only available in Deutsch. Name: IT Center Infotag 2015: “Ein Jahr IT Center”

Veranstaltungsart: Informationsveranstaltung

Datum: 21. Januar 2015
Uhrzeit:09:00 – 15:30 Uhr
Ort: IT Center der RWTH Aachen

Zielgruppe: Interessierte

Beschreibung
Der erste Infotag unter dem Motto „Ein Jahr IT Center“ fand am 21. Januar 2015 ab 09.00 Uhr mit dem Programmende gegen 15:30 Uhr im Seminarraum 003/004 des IT Centers, Dienstgebäude Kopernikusstraße 6 statt.

Agenda

09:00 – 09:30 Uhr
Die strategische Bedeutung der IT für die RWTH Aachen
Prof. Dr. Rudolf Mathar, Prorektor für Forschung und Struktur
09:30 – 10:00 Uhr
Das IT Center im Spannungsfeld zwischen IT-Dienstleister und Partner in Forschung und Lehre
Prof. Dr. Matthias S. Müller, Direktor IT Center
Pause und Speakers Corner
Dokumentation: Information bereitstellen
Martin Pieters, IT-ServiceDesk
10:15 – 10:35 Uhr
In-Situ Visualisierung – ein innovatives Vorgehensmodell zur Analyse großer Simulationsdaten
Dr. Bernd Hentschel, Gruppenleiter VR Group
10:35 – 10:55 Uhr
Forschungsdatenmanagement
Dr. Thomas Eifert, Chief Technology Officer
10:55 – 11:15 Uhr
Kommunikation der Zukunft
Thomas Böttcher, Gruppenleiter Kommunikation und Mobilität
Pause und Speakers Corner
Webportal: Service bündeln
Martin Pieters, IT-ServiceDesk
11:30 – 11:55 Uhr
Das PuL-Projekt: IT-Unterstützung des Student-Life-Cycles durch ein integriertes Campus-Management-System
Christoph Becker, Abteilungsleiter IT-Prozessunterstützung
11:55 – 12:15 Uhr
RWTHApp
Bernd Decker, Gruppenleiter Prozess- und Anwendungsentwicklung
12:15 – 12:35 Uhr
IT Sicherheit: Lassen Sie sich nicht verunsichern
Guido Bunsen, IT Manager Security

Neben den Vorträgen und der Poster-Ausstellung blieb hinreichend viel Raum für Einzelgespräche und Diskussionen. Dazu wurden Führungen in der Maschinenhalle und der aixCAVE angeboten.

RWTH Adminrunde November 2014
2014-11-10 12:15 - 14:00 | IEHK | Raum H201
This entry is only available in Deutsch. Name: RWTH Adminrunde November 2014

Veranstaltungsart: Informationsveranstaltung

Datum: 10. November 2014

Uhrzeit: 12:15 bis 14:00 Uhr
Ort: IEHK | Raum H201

Zielgruppe: Alle Interessierten

Beschreibung
Diese Runde fand am 10. November 2014 von 12:15 – 14:00 Uhr im Raum H201 (IEHK) statt.
Allgemeine Infos zur RWTH Adminrunde

Agenda

Begrüßung und Vorstellung der Agenda
Bericht Software Asset Management
Aktuelle Informationen zu verschiedenen Softwareprodukten
Aktuelles zu Sync&Share NRW – Testphase
Migration des Regio-Shops in den IT-Admin-Shop
Informationen zur Abkündigung von Abook
Nutzungsbedingungen HPC-Cluster
Diskussion / Verschiedenes

Veranstaltungsunterlagen
Die Folien der Sitzung sind im RWTH Intranet zu finden.

RWTH Adminrunde August 2014
2014-08-26
This entry is only available in Deutsch. Name: RWTH Adminrunde August 2014

Veranstaltungsart: Informationsveranstaltung

Datum: 26. August 2014
Zielgruppe: Alle Interessierten
Allgemeine Infos zur RWTH Adminrunde

Agenda

Begrüßung und Vorstellung der Agenda
Informationen zur Bewirtschaftung des HPC Clusters
Aktuelles zum Software Assetmanagement
Aktuelles zu Abook
Vorstellung neue Mailadm Version
Information und Ausblick Sync&Share NRW
Verschiedenes
Diskussion / Verschiedenes

Veranstaltungsunterlagen
Die Folien der Sitzung sind im RWTH Intranet zu finden.

RWTH Adminrunde Juli 2014
2014-07-01
This entry is only available in Deutsch. Name: RWTH Adminrunde Juli 2014

Veranstaltungsart: Informationsveranstaltung

Datum: 01. Juli 2014
Zielgruppe: Alle Interessierten
Allgemeine Infos zur RWTH Adminrunde

Agenda

Begrüßung und Vorstellung der Agenda
Informationen zum neuen Institutsbaukasten
Aktueller Stand SAM
Informationen zum MS Bundesvertrag
Kurzer Bericht zum erfolgreichen Abschluss der RWTH Mailmigration
Aktuelles zur geplanten Abook Abschaltung
Informationssicherheit am IT Center (geplant: E-Mail Verschlüsselung)
Windows 8.1 und Eduroam
Quotaregelung auf dem Cluster
Diskussion / Verschiedenes

Veranstaltungsunterlagen
Die Folien der Sitzung sind im RWTH Intranet zu finden.

RWTH Adminrunde April 2014
2014-04-08
This entry is only available in Deutsch. Name: RWTH Adminrunde April 2014

Veranstaltungsart: Informationsveranstaltung

Datum: 08. April 2014
Zielgruppe: Alle Interessierten
Allgemeine Infos zur RWTH Adminrunde

Agenda

Begrüßung und Vorstellung der Agenda
08:00 – 08:30 Uhr Aktueller Stand Software Assetmanagement an der RWTH
08:30 – 09:00 Uhr Softwarelösung zur Verwaltung von Netzwerkanschlüssen
09:00 – 09:15 Uhr Umbenennung / neues Web / neues Dokumentationsportal
09:15– 09:30 Uhr Inventur Webhosting
Diskussion / Verschiedenes

Veranstaltungsunterlagen
Die Folien der Sitzung sind im RWTH Intranet zu finden.

PPCES 2014
2014-03-10 - 2014-03-14
Parallel Programming in Computational Engineering and Science 2014

kindly supported by:

HPC Seminar and Workshop
March, Monday 10 – March , Friday 14, 2014

IT Center RWTH Aachen University
Kopernikusstraße 6, Seminar Room 3 + 4

We rely on your feedback in order to improve our course offer!
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Course Materials

Recent materials of the course can be found here >>>

Klicken Sie hier, um zu erweitern…

2014_totalview_livedemo.tar.gz

ex_omp_ppces2014.tar.gzFex_omp_ppces2014.tar.gzmpilab2014.tar

PPCES2014_OpenACC-Lab.tar.gz

ppces_lab_phi.tar.gz

serial.tar

totalview_exercises.2014.tar.gz

Videos

Video records of all presentations but “Part V: GPGPU Programming with OpenACC – Friday, March 14” can be found here >>>

Introduction

This event will continue the tradition of previous annual week-long events taking place in Aachen every spring since 2001.

Throughout the week, we will cover serial (Monday) and parallel programming using MPI (Tuesday) and OpenMP (Wednesday) in Fortran and C / C++ as well as performance tuning. Furthermore, we will introduce the participants to GPGPU programming with OpenACC (Thursday) and provide a brief introduction to the new Intel Many Integrated Core Architecture (Friday) as well as the opportunities for hands-on exercises including a “bring-your-own-code” session.
These topics are presented in a modular way, so that you can choose, pick and register for single days in order to let you invest your time as efficiently as possible.
Agenda
Please find the agenda here >>>

Registration is closed

(had deadline on Monday, March 03, 2014)

Part I: Introduction, Parallel Computing Architectures, Serial Tuning – Monday, March 10
After an introduction to the principles of today’s parallel computing architectures, the configuration of the new components of the RWTH Compute Cluster delivered by the company Bull will be explained. As good serial performance is the basis for good parallel performance, we cover serial tuning before introducing parallelization paradigms.
Please register here for Part I of PPCES 2014 >>>

Part II: Message Passing with MPI – Tuesday, March 11
The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is the de-facto standard for programming large HPC Clusters. We will introduce the basic concepts and give an overview of some advanced features. Furthermore, we will introduce the TotalView debugger and a selection of performance tools. We will also cover hybrid parallelization, i.e. the combination of MPI and shared memory programming. Hybrid parallelization is gaining popularity as the number of cores per cluster node is growing.
Please register here for Part II of PPCES 2014 >>>

Part III: Shared Memory Programming with OpenMP – Wednesday, March 12

OpenMP is a widely used approach for programming shared memory architectures, which is supported by most compilers nowadays. We will cover the basics of the programming paradigm as well as some advanced topics, such as programming NUMA machines or clusters, coherently coupled with the vSMP software from ScaleMP. We will also cover a selection of performance and verification tools for OpenMP. The RWTH Compute Cluster comprises a large number of big SMP machines (up to 128 cores and 2 TB of main memory) as we consider shared memory programming a vital alternative for applications which cannot be easily parallelized with MPI. We also expect a growing number of application codes to combine MPI and OpenMP for clusters of nodes with a growing number of cores.

There will be a sponsored social dinner on Wednesday, March 12 at 19:00 in Restaurant Palladion Aachen
Please register here for Part III of PPCES 2014 (Please mark if you like to attend the social dinner on Wed, March 12, 19:00)

Part IV: Programming the Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor, Tune your own Code – Thursday, March 13

Accelerators, like GPUs, are one way to fulfill the requirement for more and more compute power. However, they often require a laborious rewrite of the application using special programming paradigms like CUDA or OpenCL.The Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor is based on the Intel Many Integrated Core Architecture and can be programmed with standard techniques like OpenMP, POSIX threads, or MPI. We will give a brief introduction to this new architecture and demonstrate the different programming possibilities. For the labs you can also continue working on lab exercises or to get started with porting or tuning your own codes (not only for Xeon Phi). Don‘t put your expectations too high though, as time for working on large codes is limited. You will profit more from this opportunity the better you are prepared.
Please register here for Part IV of PPCES 2014
Part V: GPGPU Programming with OpenACC – Friday, March 14
OpenACC is a directive-based programming model for accelerators which enables delegating the responsibility for low-level (e.g. CUDA or OpenCL) programming tasks to the compiler. To this end, using the OpenACC API, the programmer can offload compute-intensive loops to an attached accelerator with little effort. The open industry standard OpenACC has been introduced in November 2011 and supports accelerating regions of code in standard C, C++ and Fortran. It provides portability across operating systems, host CPUs and accelerators.
During this workshop day, we will give an overview on OpenACC while focusing on NVIDIA GPUs. We will introduce the GPU architecture and explain very briefly how a usual CUDA program looks like. Then, we will dive into OpenACC and learn about its possibilities to accelerate code regions. We will cover topics such as offloading loops, managing data movement between host and device, tuning data movement and accesses, applying loop schedules, using multiple GPUs or interoperate with CUDA libraries. At the end, we will give an outlook to the OpenMP 4.0 standard that may include OpenMP for accelerators. Hands-on sessions are done on the RWTH Aachen GPU (Fermi) Cluster using PGI’s OpenACC implementation.
Please register here for Part V of PPCES 2014

Speakers

Prof. Dr. Matthias Müller, IT Center RWTH Aachen University
Ruud van der Pas, Oracle
Bernd Dammann, Technical University of Denmark, DTU Informatics
Hans Henrik B. Sørensen, Technical University of Denmark, DTU Informatics
Members of the HPC Team, IT Center RWTH Aachen University

IMPORTANT (for RWTH members only)!
Please note that all RWTH members (except UKA) need a PC pool account (which is not the same as the cluster account) to take part in the hands-on sessions.
Please find related information here.

Participants
Attendees should be comfortable with C/C++ or Fortran programming and interested in learning more about the technical details of application tuning and parallelization. The presentations will be given in English.

Material

Poster
Flyer

Fotos >>>>

Costs
There is no seminar fee. All other costs (e.g. travel, hotel, and consumption) are at your own expenses.
Links

The previous PPCES 2013 event (You can find 2013’s course materials here >>> )
The RWTH Compute Cluster User’s Guide
Location

RWTH Aachen University
IT Center, Extension Building
Kopernikusstraße 6, 52074 Aachen
Seminar Room 3 + 4

Travel Information
Please make your own hotel reservation. You may find a list of hotels in Aachen on the web pages of Aachen Tourist Service. We recommend that you try to book a room at the “Novotel Aachen City“, ” Mercure am Graben” or “Aachen Best Western Regence” hotels. These are nice hotels with reasonable prices within walking distance (20-30 minutes) from the IT Center through the old city of Aachen. An alternative is the “IBIS Aachen Marschiertor” hotel which is close to the main station, which is convenient if you are traveling by train and also want to commute to the Center by train (4 trains per hour, 2 stops)
Please, download a sketch of the city (pdf, 415 KB) with some points of interest marked.
You may find a description of how to reach us by plane, train or car here.
Bus routes 33 and 73 connect the city (central bus station) and the stop “Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße” 6 times per hour.
Most trains between Aachen and Düsseldorf stop at “Aachen West” station which is a 5 minutes walk away from the IT Center.
From the bus stop and the train station just walk uphill the “Seffenter Weg”. The first building on the lefthand side at the junction with “Kopernikusstraße” is the IT Center, RWTH Aachen University. The event will take place in the extension building in the “Kopernikusstraße”.
The weather in Aachen is usually unpredictable. It is always a good idea to carry an umbrella. If you’ll bring one, it might be sunny!
Contact
Paul Kapinos
Tel.: +49 241 80 24915
Fax/UMS: + 49 241 80 624915
E-mail: hpcevent@itc.rwth-aachen.de

RWTH Adminrunde November 2013
2013-11-29
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Veranstaltungsart: Informationsveranstaltung

Datum: 29. November 2013
Zielgruppe: Alle Interessierten
Allgemeine Infos zur RWTH Adminrunde

Agenda
Vortrag von Jens Liebchen von der Firma Redteam-Pentesting zum Thema Pentesting.
Es wird neben dem Vortrag auch einen interaktiven Teil zur Diskussion geben.

Veranstaltungsunterlagen
Ein Abstract des Vortrags kann im RWTH Intranet entnommen werden.
Auf der Webseite der Firma ist auch der komplette Vortrag vorzufinden.

RWTH Adminrunde September 2013
2013-09-23 10:00 - 12:00
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Veranstaltungsart: Informationsveranstaltung

Datum: 23. September 2013
Uhrzeit: 10:00 bis 12:00 Uhr
Zielgruppe: Alle Interessierten
Allgemeine Infos zur RWTH Adminrunde

Agenda

Begrüßung und Vorstellung der Agenda
10:00 – 10:30 Uhr Aktueller Stand Rechte- und Rollenmanagement (ReRo)
10:30 – 11:00 Uhr Webconferencing incl. Shib. Anbindung
11:00 – 11:10 Uhr MS Campus Agreement
11:10 – 11:20 Uhr Netztechnikshop
11:20 – 11:30 Uhr Ergebnisse RZ-Umfrage
11:30 – 12:00 Uhr Erfahrungen mit dem neuen Endgeräteshop für Desktop-Systeme
Verschiedenes

RWTH Adminrunde Juli 2013
2013-07-08 11:45 - 14:00
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Veranstaltungsart: Informationsveranstaltung

Datum: 08. Juli 2013
Uhrzeit: 11:45 bis 14:00 Uhr
Zielgruppe: Alle Interessierten
Allgemeine Infos zur RWTH Adminrunde

Agenda

11:45 – 11:50 Uhr Begrüßung der Teilnehmer und Vorstellung der Agenda
11:50 – 12:00 Uhr Grußwort des neuen RZ-Leiters
12:00 – 12:30 Uhr IPv6 – aktueller Stand und Ausblick
12:30 – 13:00 Uhr Vorstellung PuL Projekt
13:00 – 13:10 Uhr Erfahrungen mit der neuen Struktur des RZ-SD
13:10 – 13:20 Uhr Aktuelles zur Exchange Migration
13:20 – 13:30 Uhr Fileserver Appliances und Backup
13:30 – 13:45 Uhr Ricoh Drucker

Veranstaltungsunterlagen
Die Folien der Sitzung sind im RWTH Intranet zu finden.

GHCG - 2. Nutzertreffen
2013-05-22 - 2013-05-24 | Seminarraum 003/004, IT Center, Kopernikusstraße 6, Aachen
This entry is only available in Deutsch.

2. GHCG-Nutzergruppen-Treffen in Aachen
22.-24. Mai 2013
Rechen- und Kommunikationszentrum
RWTH Aachen University
Erweiterungsbau Kopernikusstraße 6
52074 Aachen
Seminarräume 3 + 4
Sponsored by

Veranstaltungsort und -zeit
Veranstaltungsort ist die RWTH Aachen (siehe unten). Das eigentliche Usertreffen beginnt am 23. Mai gegen 13:00 und endet am 24. Mai gegen 13:00. Dem Treffen ist ein eintägiger Workshop vom 22. Mai 13:00 bis 23. Mai 12:00 vorgeschaltet, zu dem wir einen Kurs für das Programmieren auf GPUs und dem Intel MIC anbieten. Für Themenvorschläge und Beiträge für das Usertreffen sind wir dankbar.
Die Vortragssprache ist im Normalfall Deutsch.
Die Teilnahme am Workshop und am Nutzergruppentreffen ist kostenfrei. Aber bitte melden Sie sich über eine E-Mail an wienke@rz.rwth-aachen.de ab, falls Sie einer getätigten Anmeldung nicht nachkommen können, da insbesondere die Plätze im Workshop beschränkt sind.
Agenda
Sie finden hier die Agenda (nicht – dead link)
Material
Die Unterlagen des Workshops finden Sie auf diesen Seiten der RWTH Aachen.

Klicken Sie hier, um zu erweitern…

handson.tgz
ghcg-openacc-2013.tar.gz
cuda-ghcg.tar.gz

Die Vorträge des GHCG Meetings finden Sie bald hier (passwortgeschützt).

Mi 22.5. 13:00h – Do 23.5. 13:00h: Workshop “Programmierung von heterogenen Architekturen” (NVIDIA GPU, Intel Xeon Phi)
Do 23.5. 13:00h – Fr 24.5. 13:00h: GHCG Usergroup Treffen

Sie werden dabei auf die Webseiten der RWTH Aachen weitergeleitet.
Veranstaltungsort
RWTH Aachen
Rechen- und Kommunikationszentrum
Erweiterungsbau Kopernikusstraße 6
52074 Aachen
Seminarräume 3 + 4
Reiseinformationen
Bitte reservieren Sie Ihr Hotel selbst. Eine Liste von beliebten Hotels finden Sie hier. Sie finden eine komplette Hotelliste auf den Webseiten des Aachener Touristen Service. Wir empfehlen ein Zimmer im “Novotel Aachen City“, im “Mercure am Graben” oder im “Aachen Best Western Regence” zu buchen. Dieses sind nette Hotels mit akzeptablen Preisen und liegen in einer Fußweg-Entfernung von 20-30 Minuten zum Rechen- und Kommunikationszentrum. Eine Alternative ist das Hotel “IBIS Aachen Marschiertor“, das nahe am Hauptbahnhof liegt und von dem man auch mit der Bahn das Rechenzentrum erreicht (4 Züge pro Stunde, 2 Haltestellen).
Sie können sich eine Übersichtkarte von Aachen (pdf, 415 KB) mit interessanten Punkten herunterladen. Sie können sich eine Beschreibung, wie man uns per Flugzeug, Bahn oder Auto erreichen kann, hier herunterladen.
Buslilnien 33 und 73 verbinden die Stadt (Haltestelle “Bushof”) mit dem Rechenzentrum (Haltestelle “Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße”) 6 mal pro Stunde. Die meisten Züge zwischen Aachen und Düsseldorf halten am Bahnhof “Aachen West”, von dem man durch einen 5-minütigen Fußweg das Rechenzentrum erreichen kann. Von der Bushaltestelle und dem Bahnhof müssen Sie nur den bergauf am “Seffenter Weg” entlang laufen. Das erste Gebäude auf der linken Seite an der Kreuzung zur “Kopernikusstraße” ist das Rechen- und Kommunikationszentrum. Die Veranstaltung findet im Erweiterungsgebäude des Rechenzentrums direkt in der “Kopernikusstraße 6″ statt. Dieses Gebäude linkt in der Kopernikusstraße auf der rechten Seite und wird vom Aussehen her liebevoll als “goldener Wal” bezeichnet.
Das Wetter in Aachen ist normalerweise nicht vorhersehbar. Aber es ist immer eine gute Idee einen Regenschirm bei sich zu haben. Falls Sie einen bei sich haben, könnte es sonnig werden!

Was ist die GHCG?
Die German Heterogeneous Computing Group (GHCG) ist eine unabhängige Interessengruppe rund um das Hochleistungsrechnen mit Beschleunigern im deutschsprachigen Raum. Weiterlesen
Abonnieren
RSS Feed
Mailingliste ghc-group@uni-kl.de (Schreiben Sie uns um sich zu registrieren)

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PPCES 2013
2013-03-18 - 2013-03-22
Parallel Programming in Computational Engineering and Science 2013

HPC Seminar and Workshop
Monday, March 17 – Friday, March 21, 2013
Extension Building of the
Center for Computing and Communication RWTH Aachen University
Kopernikusstraße 6, seminar rooms 3 + 4

kindly supported by:

Introduction

This event will continue the tradition of previous annual week-long events taking place in Aachen every spring since 2001.

Throughout the week, we will cover serial (Monday) and parallel programming using MPI (Tuesday) and OpenMP (Wednesday) in Fortran and C / C++ as well as performance tuning. Furthermore, we will introduce the participants to GPGPU programming with OpenACC (Thursday) and provide a brief introduction to the new Intel Many Integrated Core Architecture (Friday) as well as the opportunities for hands-on exercises including a “bring-your-own-code” session.
These topics are presented in a modular way, so that you can choose, pick and register for single days in order to let you invest your time as efficiently as possible.
Agenda and Registration
The preliminary agenda can be found here.

Part I: Introduction, Parallel Computing Architectures, Serial Tuning – Monday, March 17
After an introduction to the principles of today’s parallel computing architectures, the configuration of the new components of the RWTH Compute Cluster delivered by the company Bull will be explained. As good serial performance is the basis for good parallel performance, we cover serial tuning before introducing parallelization paradigms

Part II: Message Passing with MPI – Tuesday, March 18
The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is the de-facto standard for programming large HPC Clusters. We will introduce the basic concepts and give an overview of some advanced features. Furthermore, we will introduce the TotalView debugger and a selection of performance tools. We will also cover hybrid parallelization, i.e. the combination of MPI and shared memory programming. Hybrid parallelization is gaining popularity as the number of cores per cluster node is growing.
Part III: Shared Memory Programming with OpenMP – Wednesday, March 19

OpenMP is a widely used approach for programming shared memory architectures, which is supported by most compilers nowadays. We will cover the basics of the programming paradigm as well as some advanced topics, such as programming NUMA machines or clusters, coherently coupled with the vSMP software from ScaleMP. We will also cover a selection of performance and verification tools for OpenMP. The RWTH Compute Cluster comprises a large number of big SMP machines (up to 128 cores and 2 TB of main memory) as we consider shared memory programming a vital alternative for applications which cannot be easily parallelized with MPI. We also expect a growing number of application codes to combine MPI and OpenMP for clusters of nodes with a growing number of cores.

There was a sponsored social dinner on Wednesday, March 13 at 19:00 in Restaurant Palladion Aachen

Part IV: GPGPU Programming with OpenACC – Thursday, March 20
OpenACC is a directive-based programming model for accelerators which enables delegating the responsibility for low-level (e.g. CUDA or OpenCL) programming tasks to the compiler. To this end, using the OpenACC API, the programmer can offload compute-intensive loops to an attached accelerator with little effort. The open industry standard OpenACC has been introduced in November 2011 and supports accelerating regions of code in standard C, C++ and Fortran. It provides portability across operating systems, host CPUs and accelerators.
During this workshop day, we will give an overview on OpenACC while focusing on NVIDIA GPUs. We will introduce the GPU architecture and explain very briefly how a usual CUDA program looks like. Then, we will dive into OpenACC and learn about its possibilities to accelerate code regions. We will cover topics such as offloading loops, managing data movement between host and device, tuning data movement and accesses, applying loop schedules, using multiple GPUs or interoperate with CUDA libraries. At the end, we will give an outlook to the OpenMP 4.0 standard that may include OpenMP for accelerators. Hands-on sessions are done on the RWTH Aachen GPU (Fermi) Cluster using PGI’s OpenACC implementation.
Part V: Programming the Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor, Tune your own Code – Friday, March 21
Accelerators, like GPUs, are one way to fulfill the requirement for more and more compute power. However, they often require a laborious rewrite of the application using special programming paradigms like CUDA or OpenCL.The Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor is based on the Intel Many Integrated Core Architecture and can be programmed with standard techniques like OpenMP, POSIX threads, or MPI. We will give a brief introduction to this new architecture and demonstrate the different programming possibilities. For the labs you can also continue working on lab exercises or to get started with porting or tuning your own codes (not only for Xeon Phi). Don‘t put your expectations too high though, as time for working on large codes is limited. You will profit more from this opportunity the better you are prepared.

Speakers

IMPORTANT (for RWTH members only)!
Please note that all RWTH members (except UKA) need a PC pool account (which is not the same as the cluster account) to take part in the hands-on sessions.
Please find related information here.

Participants
Attendees should be comfortable with C/C++ or Fortran programming and interested in learning more about the technical details of application tuning and parallelization. The presentations will be given in English.

Course Materials

Compter architectures

environment.pdf
environment_lab.pdf
PPCES2013-Introduction-DaM.pdf
RWTH-PPCES-2013.pdf
PPCES2013_Parallel_Computer_Architecture_Basics.pdfure_Basics.pdf
ppces_lab_serial_tuning.pdf

GPGPU

GPUClusterAtRZ_ppces2013.pdf
GPU-intro_ppces2013.pdf
OMP4-OpenMP_for_Accelerators.pdf
OpenACC-1_ppces2013.pdf
OpenACC-2_ppces2013.pdf
OpenAccCaseStudy2013.pdf
OpenACC-links_ppces2013.pdf
OpenACC-ProgrammingLab_ppces2013.pdf
OpenACC-tools_ppces2013.pdf
OpenACC-tools_ppces2013.pdf
OpenACC-tools_ppces2013.pdf

Intel Xeon Phi

Ex_Xeon_Phi.pdf
mic_tutorial.pdf

MPI

01_MPI_Tutorial_2013.pdf
02_MPI_Lab_PPCES_2013.pdf
03_MSMPI_and_C_CPP_in_VS2010.pdf
04_MSMPI_and_Fortran_with_VS2008.pdf

OpenMP

Exercises_OMP_PPCES2013.pdf
OpenMP_Programming_on_ScaleMP.pdf
PPCES2013_-_OMP1-Introduction_to_OpenMP.pdf
PPCES2013_-_OMP2-OpenMP_Performance_Tuning_p1.pdf

TotalView

TotalView.pdf
LabTV.2013.pdf

(You can find last year’s course materials here or here.)
Material

Poster
Flyer

Costs
There is no seminar fee. All other costs (e.g. travel, hotel, and consumption) are at your own expenses.

Links

The previous PPCES 2012 event.
The HPC Web site of the RWTH Center for Computing and Communication
The RWTH Compute Cluster User’s Guide

Location

RWTH Aachen University
Center for Computing and Communication, Extension Building
Kopernikusstraße 6, 52074 Aachen
Seminar Room 3 + 4

Travel Information
Please make your own hotel reservation.You can find some popular hotels listed here. You may find a complete list of hotels on the web pages of Aachen Tourist Service. We recommend that you try to book a room at the “Novotel Aachen City“, ” Mercure am Graben” or “Aachen Best Western Regence” hotels. These are nice hotels with reasonable prices within walking distance (20-30 minutes) from the computer center through the old city of Aachen. An alternative is the “IBIS Aachen Marschiertor” hotel which is close to the main station, which is convenient if you are traveling by train and also want to commute to the Center by train (4 trains per hour, 2 stops)
Please, download a sketch of the city (pdf, 415 KB) with some points of interest marked.
You may find a description of how to reach us by plane, train or car here.
Bus routes 33 and 73 connect the city (central bus station) and the stop “Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße” 6 times per hour.
Most trains between Aachen and Düsseldorf stop at “Aachen West” station which is a 5 minutes walk away from the center.
From the bus stop and the train station just walk uphill the “Seffenter Weg”. The first buildung on the lefthand side at the junction with “Kopernikusstraße” is the Computing Center. The event will take place in the extension building in the “Kopernikusstraße”.
The weather in Aachen is usually unpredictable. It is always a good idea to carry an umbrella. If you’ll bring one, it might be sunny!
Contact
Tim Cramer
Tel.: +49 241 80 24924
Fax/UMS: + 49 241 80 624924
E-mail: hpcevent @rz.rwth-aachen.de

RWTH Adminrunde März 2013
2013-03-06 08:00 - 17:00
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Veranstaltungsart: Informationsveranstaltung

Datum: 06. März 2013
Zielgruppe: Alle Interessierten
Allgemeine Infos zur RWTH Adminrunde

Agenda

Begrüßung und Vorstellung der Agenda
Neues zum Webrelaunch / Vorstellung Institutsbaukasten
Aktuelles zur Exchange Migration
Neue Strukturen im RZ Service Desk
Erfahrungen mit Ricoh

Veranstaltungsunterlagen
Die Folien der Sitzung sind im RWTH Intranet zu finden.

RWTH Adminrunde Dezember 2012
2012-12-10
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Veranstaltungsart: Informationsveranstaltung

Datum: 10. Dezember 2012
Zielgruppe: Alle Interessierten
Allgemeine Infos zur RWTH Adminrunde

Agenda

Begrüßung und Vorstellung der Agenda
Cloud Services – Vorstellung Insync Druva
Webrelaunch im Zentralen CMS
Informationen zum Störungsmeldungsprozess und den Umgang mit Prio. 1 Störungen
Offene Diskussion zu Themen, Termine etc.

RWTH Adminrunde September 2012
2012-09-17
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Veranstaltungsart: Informationsveranstaltung

Datum: 17. September 2012
Zielgruppe: Alle Interessierten
Allgemeine Infos zur RWTH Adminrunde

Agenda

Begrüßung und Vorstellung der Agenda
Umgang mit mobilen Endgeräten / Vorstellung TreMoGe
Aktueller Stand zentrales Exchange
Informationen zum Diensteentstehungsprozess am RZ
Offene Diskussionsrunde

Veranstaltungsunterlagen
Die Folien der Sitzung sind im RWTH Intranet zu finden.

RWTH Adminrunde Juni 2012
2012-06-13
Name: RWTH Adminrunde Juni 2012

Veranstaltungsart: Informationsveranstaltung

Datum: 13. Juni 2012
Zielgruppe: Alle Interessierten
Allgemeine Infos zur RWTH Adminrunde

Agenda und Veranstaltungsunterlagen
RWTH Adminrunde Juni 2012 – 13.06.2012

Begrüßung und Vorstellung der Agenda (Daniel Bündgens)
Vorträge
Erfahrungen IPv6 (Bernd Kohler)
Der Datenbank Dienst des RZ (Thomas Eifert)
Neues aus dem Rechen- und Kommunikationszentrum
Information zu aktueller Dokumentationstätigkeit im Netzbereich (Andreas Römer)
Offene Diskussionsrunde
Offene Diskussionsrunde (u. a. Kommunikationskanäle) (alle)

RWTH Adminrunde März 2012
2012-03-29
Name: RWTH Adminrunde März 2012

Veranstaltungsart: Informationsveranstaltung

Datum: 29. März 2012
Zielgruppe: Alle Interessierten
Allgemeine Infos zur RWTH Adminrunde

Agenda
RWTH Adminrunde März 2012 – 29.03.2012

Begrüßung und Vorstellung der Agenda (Bündgens)
Neues aus dem Rechen- und Kommunikationszentrum:
Neuigkeiten aus demRechen- und Kommunikationszentrum
neue Struktur Rechen- und Kommunikationszentrum ServiceDesk (Hengstebeck)
aktuelle Informationen zu Deployed Desktop und Backup/Archiv (Eifert)
Vorträge
Nagios – ein Erfahrungsbericht aus dem RZ (Hektor)
Hilfe ein Mac (Stolz)
Kommunikationskanäle für Admins – Vorstellung und Diskussion (Orga Team/alle)
offene Diskussion zu aktuellen Themen (alle)

PPCES 2012
2012-03-19 - 2012-03-23
Parallel Programming in Computational Engineering and Science 2012

HPC Seminar and Workshop
Monday, March 19 – Friday, March 23, 2012
Extension Building of the
Center for Computing and Communication RWTH Aachen University
Kopernikusstraße 6, seminar rooms 3+4

Kindly supported by:

Introduction

This event continued the tradition of previous annual week-long events taking place in Aachen every spring since 2001.

Throughout the week, we will cover serial (Monday) and parallel programming using MPI (Tuesday) and OpenMP (Wednesday) in Fortran and C / C++ as well as performance tuning addressing both Linux and Windows platforms. Furthermore, we will introduce the participants to GPGPU programming (Thursday) and provide ample opportunities for hands-on exercises including a “bring-your-own-code” session on Friday.
These topics are presented in a modular way, so that you can choose, pick and register for single days in order to let you invest your time as efficiently as possible.
While we assume that those who would like to work on Windows during the lab sessions have some basic experience with the MS Visual Studio programming environment, we will give an additional introduction to this environment on Monday at 11:00 am.
Please note that there are two additional introductory courses on the specifics of the programming environment of the RWTH Compute Cluster for (local) users beforehand. They will cover topics like login procedures and interactive and batch usage of the RWTH Compute Cluster.

A short introduction to the RWTH Compute Cluster programming environment for Windows users on Wednesday, March 7 at 9 am. Registration is closed!
A short introduction to the RWTH Compute Cluster programming environment for Linux Users on Wednesday, March 14 at 9 am.

Agenda and Registration
Please find the agenda here as pdf

Part I: Introduction, Parallel Computing Architectures, Serial Tuning – Monday, March 19
After an introduction to the principles of today’s parallel computing architectures, the configuration of the new components of the RWTH Compute Cluster delivered by the company Bull will be explained. As good serial performance is the basis for good parallel performance, we cover serial tuning before introducing parallelization paradigms.
– During your registration, please indicate whether you plan to take part in the introduction to MS Visual Studio at Monday, 11 am in the “remarks” field.
– During your registration, please indicate whether you plan to use Linux and/or Windows for your hands-on exercises in the “remarks” field.
Part II: Message Passing with MPI – Tuesday, March 20
The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is the de-facto standard for programming large HPC Clusters. We will introduce the basic concepts and give an overview of some advanced features. Furthermore, we will introduce the TotalView debugger and a selection of performance tools. We will also cover hybrid parallelization, i.e. the combination of MPI and shared memory programming. Hybrid parallelization is gaining popularity as the number of cores per cluster node is growing.
– During your registration, please indicate whether you plan to use Linux and/or Windows for your hands-on exercises in the “remarks” field.
Part III: Shared Memory Programming with OpenMP – Wednesday, March 21

OpenMP is a widely used approach for programming shared memory architectures, which is supported by most compilers nowadays. We will cover the basics of the programming paradigm as well as some advanced topics, such as programming NUMA machines or clusters, coherently coupled with the vSMP software from ScaleMP. We will also cover a selection of performance and verification tools for OpenMP. The RWTH Compute Cluster comprises a large number of big SMP machines (up to 128 cores and 2 TB of main memory) as we consider shared memory programming a vital alternative for applications which cannot be easily parallelized with MPI. We also expect a growing number of application codes to combine MPI and OpenMP for clusters of nodes with a growing number of cores.

– During your registration, please indicate whether you plan to take part in the social event on Wednesday 7 pm in the “remarks” field.
– During your registration, please indicate whether you plan to use Linux and/or Windows for your hands-on exercises in the “remarks” field.
Part IV: GPGPU Programming – Thursday, March 22
We will study GPU programming as a parallel programming skill. We will briefly introduce GPU architectures and explain why GPU programming differs from multicore parallel programming. CUDA is NVIDIA‘s architecture for executing highly parallel applications on their GPUs; we will introduce NVIDIA‘s CUDA C extensions in comparison with the OpenCL standard, showing basic concepts, performance measurement and tuning. Then, we will look at the PGI Accelerator Model, a directive-based approach to program GPUs and give a glimpse into the upcoming OpenACC programming paradigm for accelerators.
Part V: Lab Exercises, Tune your own Code – Friday, March 23
At the end of a week full of presentations and hands-on sessions, we would like to give you the opportunity to dive into some more practical details, to continue working on lab exercises or to get started with porting or tuning your own codes. Don’t put your expectations too high though, as time for working on large codes is limited. You will profit more from this opportunity the better you are prepared.
– During your registration, please indicate whether you plan to use Linux and/or Windows for your hands-on exercises in the “remarks” field.
– During your registration, please indicate whether you plan to bring your own code in the “remarks” field.

Speakers

Thomas Warschko and Oliver Fortmeier, Bull
Bernd Dammann, DTU, Lyngby, Denmark
Members of the HPC Team of the RWTH Center for Computing and Communication

IMPORTANT (for RWTH members only)!
Please note that all RWTH members (except UKA) need a PC pool account (which is not the same as the cluster account) to take part in the hands-on sessions.
Please find related information here. (achtung hier Seite PC Pool accounts aktivieren)

Participants
Attendees should be comfortable with C/C++ or Fortran programming and interested in learning more about the technical details of application tuning and parallelization. The presentations will be given in English.

Social Event – sponsored by Bull

Course Materials

Computer Architecture

PPCES2012-Introduction-DaM.pdf
environment_lab.tar.gz
environment2012.pdf
Parallel_Computer_Architecture_Basics.pdf
serial_tuning2012.tar.gz
RWTH-PPCES-2012.pdf
lsf.pdf

GPGU

2012_GPUIntro.pdf
2012_OpenCLIntro.pdf
GPUDirective-based.pdf
2012_GPUClusterAtRZ.pdf
2012_GPUTuning.pdf
gpgpu-lab_ppces2012.zip
GPU_quickref.zip
PPCES12_OpenCL_case_study.pdf

Hybrid Parallelization

06_DaM_Hybrid_CaseStudy_FLOWer.pdf
07_DaM_OMP-MPI_CaseStudy_AdaptiveIntegration.pdf

MPI

01_MPI_Tutorial_2012.pdf
02_MPI_Lab_PPCES_2012.pdf
mpilab.tar.gz
03_MSMPI_and_C_CPP_in_VS2010.pdf
04_MSMPI_and_Fortran_with_VS2008.pdf
mpilab+solutions.tar.gz
Intel_MPI_Tools.pdf
PPCES2012_DaM_ParallelizationStrategies.pdf
PPCES2012_OF_CaseStudy.pdf

OpenMP

OMP1-Introduction_to_OpenMP.pdf
OMP2-OpenMP_Performance_Tuning_p1.pdf
OMP3-OpenMP_on_NUMA.pdf
Exercises_OMP_PPCES2012.pdf
OMPx-OpenMP_Literature.pdf
ex_omp_ppces.tar.gz
OpenMP_and_Tools.pdf
Fex_omp_ppces.tar.gz
ScaleMP.pdf

Visual Studio

01_Windows_HPC_Server_Overview.pdf
02_Windows_HPC_Server_Users_View.pdf
03_HPC_on_Windows_VisualStudio_ISV.pdf
04_VS2010_Best_Practices.pdf
A_Lab.pdf
lab.zip

Social Event – sponsored by Bull
The social event will take place on Wednesday, March 21 at 7pm in Kazan Annastraße 26.
Course Materials

Recent materials of the course can be found here.
(You can find last year’s course materials here.)

Fotos >>>>

Costs
There is no seminar fee. All other costs (e.g. travel, hotel, and consumption) are at your own expenses.

Links

The previous PPCES 2011 event.
The HPC Web site of the RWTH Center for Computing and Communication
The RWTH Compute Cluster User’s Guide

Location

RWTH Aachen University
Center for Computing and Communication, Extension Building
Kopernikusstraße 6, 52074 Aachen
Seminar Room 3 + 4
Contact
Sandra Wienke
Tel.: +49 241 80 24761
Fax/UMS: + 49 241 80 624761
E-mail: hpcevent@rz.rwth-aachen.de

RWTH Adminrunde Februar 2012
2012-02-06
Name: RWTH Adminrunde Februar 2012

Veranstaltungsart: Informationsveranstaltung

Datum: 06. Februar 2012
Zielgruppe: Alle Interessierten
Allgemeine Infos zur RWTH Adminrunde

Agenda und Veranstaltungsunterlagen
RWTH Adminrunde Februar 2012 – 06.02.2012

Videokonferenz an der FH Aachen
OPSview (IEHK) – Sven Meyer
Diskussion zur Zukunft der Admin-Listen

RWTH Adminrunde November 2011
2011-11-17
Name: RWTH Adminrunde November 2011

Veranstaltungsart: Informationsveranstaltung

Datum: 17. November 2011
Zielgruppe: Alle Interessierten
Allgemeine Infos zur RWTH Adminrunde

Agenda und Veranstaltungsunterlagen
RWTH Adminrunde November 2011 – 17.11.2011

IPv6 – Nils Neumann
Datenschutz und Datensicherheit – Helmut Löbner

RWTH Adminrunde September 2011
2011-09-19
Name: RWTH Adminrunde September 2011

Veranstaltungsart: Informationsveranstaltung

Datum: 19. September 2011
Zielgruppe: Alle Interessierten
Allgemeine Infos zur RWTH Adminrunde

Agenda und Veranstaltungsunterlagen
RWTH Adminrunde September 2011 – 19.09.2011

Ein Paketfilter – netfilter/iptables – Bernd Kohler
Die Munin Konfiguration zum Vortrag
Managed Services, Managed Serverhosting, Integratives Hosting – Thomas Pätzold
Deployed Desktop – Thomas Eifert

RWTH Adminrunde Juli 2011
2011-07-18
Name: RWTH Adminrunde Juli 2011

Veranstaltungsart: Informationsveranstaltung

Datum: 18. Juli 2011
Zielgruppe: Alle Interessierten
Allgemeine Infos zur RWTH Adminrunde

Agenda und Veranstaltungsunterlagen
RWTH Adminrunde Juli 2011 – 18.07.2011

Kann man im Web 2.0 sicher surfen – Jens Hektor
Vorstellung Secunia – Robert Tholen
Automatisierte Installation und Softwareverteilung mit OPSI im IEHK – Rainer Onkels
Windows Deployment im RZ mit SCCM – Robert Tholen

PPCES 2011
2011-03-21 - 2011-03-25
Parallel Programming in Computational Engineering and Science 2011

HPC Seminar and Workshop
Monday, March 21, – Friday, March 25, 2011

Kindly supported by:

Introduction

This event which continued the tradition of previous annual week-long events taking place in Aachen every spring since 2001 was a complete success!!.
Monday Special:
Beginning with a series of overview presentations on Monday afternoon, we are very happy to announce the upcoming RWTH Compute Cluster.
Agenda for monday special see below:

Seminar and Workshop
Throughout the week, we will cover serial and parallel programming using OpenMP and MPI in Fortran and C / C++ as well as performance tuning addressing both, Linux and Windows platforms. Due to the positive experience last year, we are happy to present a renowned speaker to give an introduction into GPGPU architectures and programming.
Speakers

Dieter an Mey (RWTH Aachen University)

Thomas Warschko (Bull)

Herbert Cornelius (Intel)

Jean-Pierre Panziera (Bull)

Christian Bischof (RWTH Aachen University)

Ruud van der Pas (Oracle)

Felix Wolf (German Research School for Simulation Science)

Michael. Wolfe (PGI)

HPC Team of the RWTH Aachen University

Participants

Attendees should be comfortable with C/C++ or Fortran programming and interested in learning more about the technical details of application tuning and parallelization. The presentations will be given in English language. Please fill out the remarks field during the registration, if you want to use Windows or Linux.

Social Event
There will be the sponsored social event on Wednesday, March 23 at 7pm in Restaurant Kazan in Annastraße in nice atmosphere with tasty food. Please feel free to participate in the social dinner on Wednesday, even if only visit one of the workshop days.
Agenda and Registration
Download Agenda (last update: March 16)

Date

Title

Speakers

Registration (separate for each day!)
Deadline on Monday March 21

Please mark in the last field if you

join the social event on Wednesday eve

want to use Windows or Linux

Monday, March 21
14:00 – 17:30

Announcement of the upcoming RWTH HPC-Cluster
J.-P. Panziera, T. Warschko (Bull), H. Cornelius (Intel), F. Wolf (GRS), R. van der Pas (Oracle) and C. Bischof, D. an Mey (RWTH)
Registration closed

Tuesday, March 22
9:00 – 17:30

Serial Programming, Tuning, Debugging, Processor Architectures
After an introduction into parallel computer architecture, we will focus on performance tuning issues and debugging. Furthermore basic introductions into the programming development environments on Windows and Linux will be presented. For those who feel comfortable with one platform, this will also be a nice opportunity to get hands on the other one.
RWTH HPC Team
R.v.d. Pas (Oracle)
Registration closed

Wednesday, March 23
9:00 – 17:30

Shared Memory Programming with OpenMP
OpenMP is a widely used approach for programming shared memory architectures, which is supported by most of the compilers nowadays. We will cover the basics of the programming paradigm as well as some advanced topics, such as programming NUMA machines or clusters coherently coupled with vSMP software from ScaleMP.

RWTH HPC Team
R.v.d. Pas (Oracle)

Registration closed

19:00

Social Dinner Restaurant Kazan

Thursday, March 24
9:00 -17:30

Message Passing with MPI
The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is the de facto standard for programming large HPC-Clusters. We will introduce the basic concepts, give an overview of advanced features and an introduction into a selection of performace tools.

RWTH HPC Team
Registration closed

Friday, March 25
9:00 – 15:30

GPGPU Programming
We study GPU programming as a parallel programming skill. We briefly introduce GPU architectures and why GPU programming differs from multicore parallel programming. CUDA is NVIDIA‘s architecture for executing highly parallel applications on GPUs; we introduce NVIDIA‘s CUDA C extensions and PGI‘s CUDA Fortran extensions, showing basic concepts, performance measurement, and tuning. Then we look at the PGI Accelerator Model, a directive-based approach to programming GPUs.
The exercise session in the afternoon will cover the basic concepts of GPGPU programming. For the first approaches, we will provide CUDA-capable laptops. In addition, we will give a practical introduction to the batch usage of the available high-end GPGPUs belonging to the RWTH compute cluster. At the end of Q2 2011 a GPU-Cluster comprising approx. 50 NVIDIA Fermi graphics cards will be established to power the new CAVE of the RWTH Virtual Reality Group and for high performance GPGPU computing.
M. Wolfe (PGI)
Michael Wolfe has worked in compilers in academia and industry for over 30 years. He has been a compiler engineer at The Portland Group, Inc. (PGI) since 1996, where he currently leads development of GPU programming.
Registration closed

Material

Overview

PPCES2011-Introduction-DaM.pdf
PPCES2011-New_RWTH_Compute_Cluster-Thomas_Warschko.pdf
PPCES2011-Bull_Exascale-JP_Panziera.pdf
PPCES2011-Bull_Exascale-JP_Panziera.pdf

Programming Envirement and Serial Tuning

2011_03_22_-_Parallel_Computer_Architectures.pdf
2011_03_22_-_Performance_Tools_Basics.pdf
1.serial-optimization-ppces2011_rvdp.pdf.2rvoc6l.pdf
HPC User Environment.pdf.zg0t62h.pdf

MPI

MPI-Tutorial.pdf
MPI_Lab.pdf

OpenMP

2.overview-openmp-ppces2011-rvdp.pdf
2011-03-23_-_OpenMP_and_the_Hardware_Architecture.pdf
2011-03-23_-_Tasking_and_OpenMP_Success_Studies.pdf
Intel_Inspector_XE.pdf
OpenMP_Lab.pdf
OpenMP_Lab.zip

GPGPU

GPGPUs@CCC.pdf
Wolfe_Aachen.pdf
gpgpu-lab.zip

Course Material 2011
Fotos >>>>

Costs
There is no seminar fee. All other costs (e.g. travel, hotel, and consumption) are at your own expenses.
Links

The previous PPCES 2010 event.

Link to Oracle Technical Whitepaper

Location

RWTH Aachen University
Center for Computing and Communication, Extension Building
Kopernikusstraße 6, 52074 Aachen
Seminar Room 3,4

Contact
Tim Cramer
Tel.: +49 241 80 24924
Fax/UMS: + 49 241 80 624924
E-mail: hpcevent@rz.rwth-aachen.de

PPCES 2010
2010-03-22 - 2010-03-26
Parallel Programming in Computational Engineering and Science 2010

HPC Seminar
Monday, March 22, 11:00 – Friday, March 26, 2010, 15:30
in the Center for Computing and Communication

After the HPC Seminar …
…please tell us how you liked it on the feedback form (the input is visible to the public) or send e-mail to hpcevent@rz.rwth-aachen.de.

Introduction

This event will continue the tradition of previous annual SunHPC events and last year’s PPCES event taking place in Aachen since 2001. We keep continuously changing the format a little bit over the years. This year we are going to include a half day workshop on GPGPU programming for the first time.
As usual, we will cover parallel programming using OpenMP and MPI in Fortran and C/C++ with a focus on the Linux and Windows Platforms.

Starting on Monday we will give basic introductions into the programming development environments on these platforms which are available for the lab exercises during the following days. For those who feel comfortable with one platform, this will also be a nice opportunity to get hands on the other one.
Tuesday will be dedicated to message passing with MPI and on Wednesday will cover shared memory programming with OpenMP. On Thursday we will focus on performance tuning issues while on Friday we will concentrate on GPGPU programming issues.

You can register for all five days separately so that you can choose your favourite topics. Of course you are welcome to register for all five days.
Participants
Attendees should be comfortable with C/C++ or Fortran programming and interested in learning more about the technical details of application tuning and parallelization. The presentations will be given in English language.
Speakers
The list of speakers includes:

Ruud van der Pas (Oracle) on Thursday

Timo Stich (NVIDIA) on Friday

Bernd Dammann (DTU) on Friday

Members of the RWTH HPC Team throughout the whole week.

Agenda and Registration

Please find here Agenda, Poster, Flyer, Fotos

Course Material

Programming Environment

Welcome.pdf
Login_Uebung.pdf
PPCES1.pdf
PPCES2.pdf
Lab_Cluster_Basics_Windows.pdf
Visual_Studio_for_HPC_Application_Development.pdf.rjr3iee.partial
TotalView.pdf
TV_Uebung.pdf
Exercise: “Hello World”
Exercise: TotalView

MPI

MPI_Introduction.pdf
OMP-MPI_CaseStudy_AdaptiveIntegration.pdf
Handout_Lab_MPI-Introduction.pdf
Handout_Lab_MPI-Solutions.pdf
Hybrid_CaseStudy_FLOWer.pdf
MPI_CaseStudy_Jacobi.pdf
MPI_CaseStudy_Matmul.pdf
Parallelization_Strategies.pdf
Handout_MPI_manpages.pdf
MPI Introduction Exercise

OpenMP

CT-OpenMP_Introduction.pdf
CT-OpenMP_Introduction-completed.pdf
CT-Advanced_OpenMP.pdf
CT-Lab_OpenMP_Exercises.pdf

GPGPU

NVIDIA_CudaIntroduction.pdf
NVIDIA_AdvancedCuda.pdf
GPU_ProgrammingParadigms.pdf
GPU based Singles and Coincidence Computing.ppt.pdf
B.Dammann-PPCES10.pdf

Tools

HPC Tools on Windwows
Performance Measurement Basics
RWTH Aachen Linux Tools Overview
VT Ueser Manual (5.8)

Course Material 2010

Videos

Monday,
March 22, 2010
PPCES Welcome – Dieter an Mey
download

Program Dev. Linux – Dirk Schmidl
download

User Environment Linux & Windows – Dirk Schmidl
download

Program Dev. Windows – Christian Terboven
download

Tuesday,
March 23, 2010
MPI Basics – Dieter an Mey
download

Case Study – Adv. Integration – Dieter an Mey
download

Case Study – FLOWER – Dieter an Mey
download

Case Study – Jacobi – Dieter an Mey
download

Case Study – Matrix – Dieter an Mey
download

MPI Overview – Dieter an Mey
download

MPI Parallelization Strategies – Dieter an Mey
download

MPI Debugging MARMOT – Christian Iwainsky
download

Wednesday,
March 24, 2010
Intro OpenMP – Christian Terboven
download

Advanced OpenMP – Christian Terboven
download

Using OpenMP – Christian Terboven
download

Performance Tuning OpenMP – Christian Terboven
download

Thursday,
March 25, 2010
Tuning for Cache Based Systems – Ruud van der Pas (Oracle)

Performance Analysis with Oracle Dev. Tools – Ruud van der Pas (Oracle)

Intro Performance Tuning in Aachen – Christian Iwainsky
download

Performance Tuning Basics – Christian Iwainsky
download

HPC Tools on Windows – Christian Terboven
download

Case Study – MPI Parallelization of DROPS – Oliver Fortmeier
download

Friday,
March 26, 2010
PPCES GPU Day Introduction – Dieter an Mey
download

GPU HW Architecture – Timo Stich (Nvidia)

GPGPU In Depth – Timo Stich (Nvidia)

GPGPU Paradigms – Boris Bierbaum
download

User Experiences: GPU Lab at DTU Informatics- Bernd Dammann (DTU)
download

User Experiences: GPU-based Singles and Coincidence Computing – Benjamin Goldschmidt (LfBS)
download

User Experiences: GPGPU at IAC Aachen – Arne Luechow
download

User Experiences: Performance gain in VASP using GPGPU – Stefan Maintz (Inorganic Chemistry)
download

User Experiences: CUDA Assisted Vis. Obj. Detection – Patrick Sudowe (UMIC)
download

Costs
There is no seminar fee. All other costs (e.g. travel, hotel, and consumption) are at your own expenses.

Links

PPCES 2009 web page includes course material and video recordings
Feedback: Please provide your input to improve future PPCES events here.

Contact
Dieter an Mey
Tel.: +49 241 80 24377
Fax/UMS: + 49 241 80 624377
E-mail: hpcevent@rz.rwth-aachen.de
