[Academic] Fwd: OpenMP course announcement

[Richard Martin]

EPCC is running a 2-day course on Shared-Memory Programming with OpenMP
on Monday 21st - Tuesday 22nd May 2012 at the University of Edinburgh.

Almost all modern computers now have a shared-memory architecture with
multiple CPUs connected to the same physical memory, for example
multicore laptops or large multi-processor compute servers. This course
covers OpenMP, the industry standard for shared-memory programming,
which enables serial programs to be parallelised easily using compiler
directives. Users of desktop machines can use OpenMP on its own to
improve program performance by running on multiple cores; users of
parallel supercomputers can use OpenMP in conjunction with MPI to better
exploit the shared-memory capabilities of the compute nodes.

This two-day course will cover an introduction to the fundamental
concepts of the shared variables model, followed by the syntax and
semantics of OpenMP and how it can be used to parallelise real programs.
Hands-on practical programming exercises make up a significant, and
integral, part of this course.

For more information and to register, please see:
http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/training-education/course-programme/shared-memory-programming-with-openmp.

This course is being delivered as part of EPCC's PRACE Advanced Training
Centre programme. Registration is free for all academics.



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