This workshop will be delivered by an industry expert, Dr. Sambath Narayanan Parthasarathy.

The topics covered are given below:

• Parallel Computing Concepts: Different types of parallelism, Flynn's taxonomy, Data parallelism, Task Parallelism

• HPC H/W architecture: Uni-processor architecture-RISC, Intel Nehalem, NVIDIA GPU, AMD GPU, Multi-processor, Multi-core, architectures, data-parallel, shared memory, Distributed Memory, DSM, and Memory Hierarchy

• Mapping: Algorithm/computation/data to High-Performance parallel, accelerated, heterogeneous architectures, synchronization, load balancing, overlapping compute/communication and overlapping compute/memory transfer

• HPC Software Stack: High-Performance Compilers, CUDA, HIP, OpenMP, Open ACC, MPI, Math Libraries, Profilers

• Hands-on Lab on HPC software OpenMP*

• Porting and parallelizing: porting applications onto an HPC system having multiprocessors, OpenMP, and MPI - Case Study: WRF 4.5.1

• Visual Computing: 3D Visualization Tools, Framework, examples, and Demo

• Summary and next steps

*Pre-requisites: For Hands-on, participants are expected to use their own multi-core x86 based laptop (more details will be shared post-registration)

• Adjunct Faculty in TCE Madurai with specialization in HPC/AI/Edge computing

• Conducts industry-oriented courses at IIT Delhi, NIT Andhra, IIIT Pune and TCE

• HPC and AI consultant

Projects at a multi-national HPC and Graphics companies

• Territory Support Manager by providing deep HPC technical support, helped the company to deploy Supercomputer class systems having 100 to 1000s of CPUs in major Indian organizations.

• Supported the Business teams in activities like customer technical presentations, setting up a proof of concept during Trade-shows in India and APAC region.

• Worked as Performance Tuning / HPC / GRID Subject Matter Expert and involved in major competitive benchmarks for scientific & engineering applications on Cray/Origin having 512 CPUs.

• Developed HPC solutions for Indian Government clients namely NAL, ISRO, CMMACS, IITs, leading Universities, NCMRWF, CDAC and Hong Kong weather observatory.

• HPC Hackathon – Delivered a 5-day HPC enablement cum Hackathon for Queensland University, Australia users, to IISc, IUCAA, NAL users.

Projects at an autonomous HPC Organization under Govt. of India

• Member Technical Staff / Team Coordinator

• Established a successful ten-member HPC Scientific and Engineering applications team.

• Obtained the Best project Award for the project, ‘Development of parallel T80 weather code on Param’.

• Enabled 100+ Scientists and Researchers across India/Australia/Hong Kong on the HPC application development/tuning skills.

Pre-registrations and Important Dates:

• The seats are in a limited number and the registration is confirmed upon paying the workshop fee (the payment procedure will be sent by email to the registered participants).

• The workshop fee includes the following:

  • • • Link to online lecture sessions and handouts as per the workshop time-table (above) including a demo of a hands-on computer laboratory session,

• Following are workshop fee (INR) categories & details:

  • • • Current UG/PG/MS/Ph.D. Students* of any institutions/colleges/universities: Rs. 250 (Returnable upon attendance and successful completion of the workshop)

      • Faculty participants from Engineering/Sciences institutions/colleges/university departments: Rs. 250 (Including GST)

      • Faculty participants from private organizations: Rs. 450 (Including GST)

• Interested participants first do the pre-registration using below mentioned Google form.

• This form is for registration of your interest in the one-day workshop on HPC @ IIT Dharwad (requires your CV in a PDF format).

• The last date for submitting (online) the completed registration form is: 17th of May 2022.

• The selected participants are then required to pay the workshop fees (details on how to pay this workshop fee will be sent by email to the participants).

• Last date to pay the workshop fees (non-refundable except for students*) is: 19th of May 2022.

• Late payment of the workshop fee beyond the 19th of May 2022, does not guarantee a seat for this workshop.

• *Students should upload a scanned copy of their current student ID card.

• *The fee from the students is refundable upon attendance and successful completion of the workshop.