Advanced Topics in Parallel Computing

Introduction

This seminar series reviews advanced topics in high-performance parallel computing.

Syllabus

Synopsis: ISC5939-01, Spring 2008, 1 hr, letter grade, T 3:30-4:30 PM, 499DSL
Course Web Site: http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/courses/HPC-adv
Instructor: Professor Robert van Engelen
engelen at scs dot fsu dot edu
475DSL (School of Computational Science at 4th floor in Dirac)
645-0309.
When and Where?: 499 DSL on Tuesday from 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM.
Office Hours: Mondays 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM and upon request.
Intended Audience: Graduate students and senior undergraduate students.
Prerequisites: High-Performance Computing (HPC) ISC5935-1 (Fall 2007)
Material: Class handouts.
Ealuation and Grading: Attendance 50% (2% penalty for each missed class) and topic presentation 50%.
A:94-100, A-:90-93, B+:87-89, B:83-86, B-:80-82, C+:77-79, C:73-76, C-:70-72

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Schedule

The seminar schedule is shown below (refresh this page if necessary).

Date	Lectures	Reading material
1/8	Welcome and Introduction	-
1/15	Floating Point Operations and SIMD Extensions [PDF]	see lecture notes
1/22	The PRAM model [PDF]	[JaJa] Chapters 1 and 2
1/29	Parallel I/O [PDF]	[SRC] Chapter 11
2/5	Graph Partitioning for High-Performance Scientific Simulation [PDF]	[SRC] Chapter 18
2/12	Grid Computing [PDF]	[Grid] Chapter 4
2/19	Advanced Restructuring Compiler Technologies [PDF]	[High] Chapters 5, 7-9 (parts)
2/26	Automatic Differentiation	[SRC] Chapter 24
3/4	Parallel Object-Oriented Libraries	[SRC] Chapter 13
3/11	Spring Break
3/18	class cancelled
3/25	Parallel Computing in Computational Fluid Dynamics: Incompressible Flows [PDF]	[SRC] Chapter 5
4/1	Parallel Computational Chemistry	[SRC] Chapter 7
4/8	Parallel Computing in Computational Fluid Dynamics: Compressible Flows [PDF]	[SRC] Chapter 5
4/15	Parallel Computing in Earthquake Simulations [PDF]	[SRC] Section 8.4

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