Interested in porting code to run on Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003? Want to get best practices, talk direct to the hpc experts from Redmond, and understand the full roadmap for Microsoft in the HPC space – then this training is for you!

This training is for everybody who is developing  or porting code to CCS.

HPC Lab Agenda:

Day 1

• Introduction to High Performance Computing
• Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Overview
• Intro to verticals using Compute Clusters
• Into to third party applications capable of running on Compute Clusters
• Topologies of Compute clusters
• Intro to Interconnects/ networking
• Intro to storage technology for HPC implementations
• Installing and configuring Compute Clusters
• Managing Compute Clusters

Day 2

• Creating, Submitting and Managing jobs to the cluster using CCS Scheduler with:
• UI
• Command line
• API
• XML
• Leveraging Active Directory to manage users and identity contexts of the jobs on the cluster
• Developing Windows x64 applications
• Using OpenMP to develop multithreaded application
• Performance Tuning Multithreaded applications

Day 3

• Message Passing Fundamentals
• Parallel Architectures
• Problem Decomposition
• Data Parallel and Message Passing Models
• Parallel Programming Issues
• Getting Started with MSMPI
• The Message Passing Model
• What is MPI?
• Goals of MPI
• When not to use MPI?
• Basic Features of Message Passing Programs
• Point-to-Point Communications and Messages
• Communication Modes and Completion Criteria
• Blocking and Nonblocking Communication
• Collective Communications
• Compiling and Running MSMPI Programs

These are hands-on labs and space is very limited. Please make sure you register asap at www.hpcpal.com