BremHLR Course
Parallel Programming with MPI and OpenMP

Basic information

• September 15 – 18, 2025
• University of Bremen, MZH room 5600
• Instructors:
  • Dr. Hinnerk Stüben (Regional computing center of the University of Hamburg)
  • Dr. Lars Nerger (BremHLR and Alfred Wegener Institute Bremerhaven)

Course Material

Basic Material

• Schedule
• 0.1 Using the Unix terminal
• 0.2 Topics in C
• 0.3 Introduction for Fortran

Lecture slides

• 1. Introduction and Overview
• 2. Thinking Parallel
• 3. MPI programming exercises
• 4. Interative solution of the Laplace equation
• 5. Introduction to MPI – parts
  • 5.0 MPI – Massage Passing Interface – beginning (Monday morning)
  • 5.1 MPI – Message Passing Interface (Monday)
  • 5.2 MPI – Message Passing Interface (Tuesday)
  • 5.3 MPI – Message Passing Interface (Thursday)
• 6. OpenMP (Wednesday)
• 7. More MPI (Thursday)

Code

• parallel-programming-2025.zip
• Simple MPI-IO example: mpi-io.zip

Links

• MPI-Forum
• OpenMP home page
• Designing and Building Parallel Programs, by Ian Foster (web site on book)
• HLRS Parallel Programming Workshop (Online Version)
• MPI Implementations
  • Open-MPI
  • MPICH