parallèles from physics, maths, programming to supercomputing

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ParallèlesTrainingClass

TheParallèlesClassismeanttosharebestpracticesinhighperformancecomputing.Itspansoverthescientificcomputingarchitecture,fromthescientificproblems,(usuallyaspartialderivatedequations),todiscretizationandnumericalmethod,toprogrammingandfinallytosupercomputer.Initscurrentversion,itisillustratedasa2Dacousticwavepropagationproblembyfinitedifferenceinthetimedomain.

SpanningovertheScientificArchitecture• Acoustic Wave Equation: focuses on the Physics and Mathematics aspects of the

problemtobesolved.

• DiscretizationandFiniteDifference:focusesontheNumericalmethods.

• Programming: Several languages such as Fortran, C, Python, MATLAB and Julia areintroduced,andusedtocodetheacousticwavepropagationasa2DFDTD.

• Optimization: Vectorization and parallelization techniques such as OpenMP, MPI,OpenACCwillbeintroducedanddemonstrated.

• Supercomputers:ThecodewillrunonsystemssuchasMacBookPro,DellT7500,NoorclusterswithGPU/IntelPhinodes.