ARCHER, UK Tier 2 & PRACE: Modern C++ for Computational Scientists

PrerequisitesNew

• Please note that although this course is being hosted at Cambridge, it is being organised and run by EPCC at the University of Edinburgh.

Since the 2011 revision to the C++ language and standard library, the ways it is now being used are quite different. Used well, these features enable the programmer to write elegant, reusable and portable code that runs efficiently on a variety of architectures.

However it is still a very large and complex tool. This set of online lectures, delivered over two Wednesday afternoons and including practical exercises, will cover a minimal set of features to allow an experienced non-C++ programmer to get to grips with language.

These include:

• overloading
• templates
• containers
• iterators
• lambdas and standard algorithms.

It concludes with a brief discussion of modern frameworks for portable parallel performance which are commonly implemented in C++.

• To book a place on this course please complete their online registration form which can be found here along with a full description of the course.

• All users of ARCHER, UK Tier 2, and PRACE machines and would appeal to existing C++ programmers of these systems wanting to learn techniques that are applicable to numerical computing, or C programmers who want to know what parts of the C++ standard they should prioritise when learning new features
• Also applicable for those using C++ in their work

Number of sessions: 4

• Please note that although this course is being hosted at Cambridge, it is being organised and run by EPCC at the University of Edinburgh.

• To book a place on this course please complete their online registration form which can be found here along with a full description of the course.

• Two full day sessions