Threaded Programming
This is an extended version of Shared-Memory Programming with OpenMP, delivered as part of the CDT programme at Southampton. In addition to covering OpenMP programming, the course will cover optimisation of both single-threaded and multi-threaded code.
Details
This three day course will fall into two parts:
Days 1 and 2 will cover the basics of OpenMP programming, including parallel regions, worksharing, synchronisation and tasks.
Day 3 will cover optimising code for performance, starting with single-threaded considerations and moving on to mutli-threaded issues. All three days of the course will consist of lectures and hands-on practical exercises.
This course is free to all academics.
Pre-requisites
Attendees should have a sound working knowledge of programming in either Fortran, C or C++.
Timetable
Tuesday 24th March
- 09:00 Lectures: Shared Memory Concepts; OpenMP Fundamentals; Parallel Regions
- 11:00 Break
- 11:30 Exercises: Hello World; Parallel regions
- 13:00 Lunch
- 14:00 Lectures: Work sharing; Synchronisation
- 15:30 Break
- 16:00 Exercises: Parallel loops; Synchronisation
- 17:00 Close
Wednesday 25th March
- 09:00 Lectures: Further topics; OpenMP Tasks
- 11:00 Break
- 11:30 Exercises: Synchronisation; Orphaning
- 13:00 Lunch
- 14:00 Lectures: Memory model; Other threading models
- 15:30 Break
- 16:00 Exercise: Tasks
- 17:00 Close
Thursday 26th March
- 09:00 Lectures: Computer architecture: processors, memory, parallel systems
- 11:00 Break
- 11:30 Lectures: Sequential optimisation techniques
- 13:00 Lunch
- 14:00 Lectures: Multithreaded optimisation
- 15:30 Break
- 16:00 Exercise: Multithreaded optimisation
- 17:00 Close
Course Materials
Slides and exercise material for this course are available here.
Location
The course will be held in Southampton
Registration
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Questions?
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