published on Thursday, November 5, 2009

DEISA Training November 3-4, 2009, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

DEISA has been running two training courses at the SARA Computing and Networking Services Center, Amsterdam in November 2009. Both courses were based around a number of practical programming exercises.

The first course on Tuesday, 3rd November was an "Introduction to the DEISA Infrastructure" and covered the basic aspects of the DEISA distributed supercomputer environment and the software tools that are used to access it.

The second course on Wednesday, 4th November covered "The Scalasca Performance Analysis Toolset". Scalasca is an open-source, portable toolset that can be used to analyze the behavior of parallel applications and to identify opportunities for performance optimization. It has been specifically designed for use on large-scale HPC systems such as those in DEISA, but is also well-suited for small and medium-scale HPC platforms.

Scalasca supports an incremental performance-analysis procedure that integrates runtime summaries with in-depth profiles of parallel execution. DEISA staff will be available to help users with the Scalasca practical exercises and to help analyze the execution of their own programs on the DEISA platforms.

For more details, please see:
http://www.deisa.eu/usersupport/training/training-events