WORKSHOP: Intermediate MPI Programming

Four consecutive Thursdays, February 6th through February 27th, 1:00 to 
4:00 p.m. each day
Local Arrangements for Boston University - please visit the following 
url to register:
http://scv.bu.edu/accessgrid/events/mpi-02-03-register.html

Overview -
Ohio Supercomputer Center and Boston University are presenting an 
Intermediate MPI workshop using the Access Grid. This MPI workshop consists 
of 4 three-hour sessions held each Thursday beginning February 6, 2003 
through February 27, 2002. Each session begins at 1:00 p.m. eastern. 
This MPI workshop is sponsored by the Alliance Partners for Advanced 
Computational Services (PACS).

If you are interested in attending at Boston University, please refer to 
these local arrangements. If you are planning to participate from 
another site, please visit http://alliance.osc.edu/impi/ for further 
information. ** Registration information is listed at the bottom of this 
page. **

Brief Description

This workshop covers topics that go beyond introductory MPI topics. 
Attendees will learn how to perform true parallel I/O with MPI at both 
the basic and advanced levels; determine which parallel tasks require 
the use of Intercommunicators vs. Intracommunicators and what is the 
difference between them; how to use their own operators in the generic 
MPI_Reduce() routine; distinguish between Probing and Receiving 
messages; create general (i.e., non-Cartesian) virtual topologies; and 
intermix the C++ and Fortran 90 languages with the MPI Library calls. A 
more complete description is available at http://alliance.osc.edu/impi/.

Time and Agenda - Boston University is located in the Eastern Time Zone. 
We will begin at 1 p.m. and end at approximately 4 p.m. each day.

· February 6, 2003
o Introduction
o Message Probing vs. Receiving
o Parallel I/O (basics)

· February 13, 2003
o Parallel I/O (advanced)
o Intercommunicators vs. Intracommunicators

· February 20, 2003
o User-defined Reduction Operators
o Graph Topologies

· February 27, 2003
o Fortran 90 and MPI
o C++ and MPI

Problem sets will be assigned at the end of each session. Participants 
are strongly encouraged to complete the problems each week and send 
solutions to the instructor for comments.

Location - A Boston University Access Grid Node is located in the Office 
of Information Technology, room B17 at 111 Cummington Street. For 
further information please visit http://scv.bu.edu/accessgrid/

Registration -
To attend at Boston University, please register online at: 
http://scv.bu.edu/accessgrid/events/mpi-02-03-register.html

Questions? Comments? Please send email to accessgrid@bu.edu .