About this Workshop

This is a 'gentle introduction' to parallel programming ideas and methods. We don't assume any particular programming knowledge; however you will need a few months experience to want to get hands on as parallel programming has a lot of wrinkles.

Slides

1. Introduction and AnalogiesLink opens in a new window
2. Threads and OpenMPLink opens in a new window
3. MPILink opens in a new window
4. GPUsLink opens in a new window
5. Short ConclusionsLink opens in a new window

The introductory material is also available as notes hereLink opens in a new window.

A more detailed discussion of the technologies is hereLink opens in a new window.

Hands-On Material

Since this course does not specify a programming language, this section contains some hands-on examples using either 'pen and paper'. For programming exercises, we recommend looking at materials for the relevant technology. Those we provide are linked in the next section.

• Parallelism gameLink opens in a new window
• Workflows with GNU ParallelLink opens in a new window
• Parallelism approaches exercisesLink opens in a new window

Other Warwick materials

• https://warwick.ac.uk/research/rtp/sc/rse/training/intrompi - Introduction to MPI
• https://warwick.ac.uk/research/rtp/sc/rse/training/openmp - Introduction to OpenMP

Documentation Link

SCRTP documentation is available at https://docs.scrtp.warwick.ac.uk/

Example Code

Github repo of examplesLink opens in a new window

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