N8 CIR is collaborating with VI-HPS, Durham University’s Department of Computer Science and DiRAC on an EPSRC-funded ExCALIBUR Knowledge Integration Activity that will help translate performance data into language that domain specialists can understand and use.

The activity is a set of 7 tutorials and practical workshops that will start in January 2021. There will be one session each month, featuring a morning lecture followed by a practical, hackathon-type session in the afternoon where you can implement the material from the morning session.

21 January – Introduction

Organisers introduce concept; each team introduces their code base and ambitions; some basic profiling methodology; initial basic profiling of user codes.

18 February – Parallel Profiling

Introduction to Scalasca/Score-P/CUBE; primary focus on OpenMP and MPI

11 March – Trace Collection

MPI & OpenMP trace collection and analysis with Scalasca/Score-P/Vampir

15 April – Parallel Correctness

MPI & OpenMP correctness verification with MUST/Archer

20 May – User workshop

Feedback on achievements so far; roundtable on next workshop steps; presentation by workshop participants how they present their performance data traditionally towards their communities (home-made performance data collection and presentation)

17 June and 15 July – Contents TBC

You can read a more comprehensive overview of the programme and find registration links at: https://tinyurl.com/performanceanalysis2021