TUTORIALS

Tutorial 1: Success Secrets of Managing Enterprise Architecture Projects
Tutorial 2: Using the Pilot Library: A Fresh Alternative to MPI for HPC Clusters
Tutorial 3: An Introduction to CUDA: Harnessing Graphics Processing Units for High-Throughput General-Purpose Computation

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TUTORIAL 2:

Title: Using the Pilot Library: A Fresh Alternative to MPI for HPC Clusters

Speaker: Dr. Bill Gardner
Assisting: Graduate students John Carter & Natalie Girard
Department of Computing & Information Science
University of Guelph, Ontario

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Deadline: September 21, 2009, 11:59PM EDT

Date: Saturday, September 26, 2009
Time: 1:30 PM; Duration – 3.5 hours
Attend onsite: 245 Church St. (Ryerson University), Toronto
Attend online: Web conferencing option available

Cost

Conference Attendees: Free (requires registration ID number)
IEEE and/or PMI members: $55 (Canadian)
All others: $75 (Canadian)

Who should attend

Novice parallel programmers
Software architects working on cluster-based solutions
Scientific programmers from all disciplines, but particularly: math, physics, chemistry
High-performance computing specialists with an interest in different design/implementation methodologies
Parallel programming instructors

Speaker

Bill Gardner is a faculty member in the Computing and Information Science Department at the University of Guelph. He teaches software development, embedded systems, and parallel programming. Based in the Modeling and Design Automation Group, his main research area is concurrent system synthesis from formal specifications.

PNP's Earned: Attendees will receive one PNP (Pilot notepad)!

BYOL: "Bring Your Own Laptop" to participate in hands-on exercises. Any OS is fine; you only need wifi and a browser.

Course Overview

Pilot is a new way to program high-performance clusters based on a high-level model featuring processes executing on cluster nodes, and channels for passing messages among them. Designed to smooth the learning curve for novice scientific programmers, the set of library functions is small—less than one-tenth that of MPI—and easy to learn, since the syntax mirrors C’s well-known printf and scanf. The process/channel abstraction inherently reduces the opportunities for communication errors that result in deadlock, and a runtime mechanism detects and diagnoses deadlocks arising from circular waiting. The Pilot library is built as a transparent layer on top of conventional MPI, and shields users from the latter’s complexity while adding minimal overhead.

This tutorial assumes basic exposure to C programming. Familiarity with MPI is not required, but will make the comparisons more meaningful.

Hands-on sessions will work for both onsite and online attendees!

What You Will Learn

Purpose of Pilot library and conceptual overview
Planning, coding, compiling and running a Pilot application
Hands-on: Hello World and sample programs
Hands-on: Runtime monitor for usage errors, logging, and deadlock detection
Patterns in Pilot: master/worker and pipeline
Hands-on: Pilot’s collective operations on groups of channels
Compare/contrast Pilot and MPI
Pilot performance
Status and availability of library

Pilot website: http://carmel.cis.uoguelph.ca/pilot/

Research on Pilot is supported by a Fellowship.