COMP 706: Advanced Parallel Computing (Fall, 2017)
| WEEK | DATE | LECT# | TOPICS/DESCR |
| 1 | 08/28/17 | 1 |
Module 1: HPC Overview/Exascale computing concepts Introduction/Course overview The Exascale Project Scaling to Petascale Institute |
| 1 | 08/30/17 | 2 |
Source code control
Managing projects with Make Running Jobs on Parallel Computers SSH Simple Latex Paper Overview of Sequential Architectures Overview of Parallel Architectures |
| 2 | 09/04/17 | - | Holiday - Labor Day - No class |
| 2 | 09/06/17 | 3 |
Module 2: MPI Programming: 2D-3D communicators, halo exchange, datatypes; Iterative solvers, performance MPI derived data types MPI Cartesian Communicators and Topologies: Introduction MPI Topologies: Data Distribution, Halo Exchange, PDE's. Kjoldstad and Gropp (2010), "Ghost Cell Pattern" |
| 3 | 09/11/17 | 4 |
MThomas Notes: 2D Jacobian-IterSolver-C (Gropp) 2D Jacobian Iterative Solver Notes Gropp: Intermediate MPI example - Jacobian Solver Kaden Tseng Iterative Solver Notes |
| 3 | 09/13/17 | 5 | Performance Topics: |
| 4 | 09/18/17 | 6 |
Kadin Tsang - 3D Iterative solvers Overview of HW3 |
| 4 | 09/20/17 | 7 |
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| 5 | 09/25/17 | 8 |
File I/O: MPI I/O |
| 5 | 09/27/17 | 9 | File I/O: NetCDF Notes |
| 6 | 10/02/17 | 10 |
Student presentation/discussions of 2D/3D Iterative Solver programs. |
| 6 | 10/04/17 | 11 | no class |
| 7 | 10/09/17 | 12 |
Misc MPI Topics: |
| 7 | 10/11/17 | 13 | independent meetings with students. |
| 8 | 10/16/17 | 14 | Recap: MPI Halo Exchange: Module 3: Accessing Exascale Resources: |
| 8 | 10/18/17 | 15 |
Misc Advanced MPI Topics:
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| 9 | 10/23/17 | 16 | HW Q&A for 3D Iterative solver; Misc topics |
| 9 | 10/25/17 | 17 | no class |
| 10 | 10/30/17 | 18 |
Module 4: Accelerating Code using Hybrid MPI/GPU Programming Mat-Mat-Mult |
| 10 | 11/01/17 | 19 | Accelerating Code:MPI+OMP |
| 11 | 11/06/17 | 20 | Accelerating Code: MPI+GPU Discussions of HWs |
| 11 | 11/08/17 | 21 | Overview of HW7:
Matrix-Matrix Multiplication using MPI, MPI+OpenMPI, and MPI+GPU See: Homeworks |
| 12 | 11/13/17 | - | No Class: @SC17 |
| 12 | 11/15/17 | - | No Class: @SC17 |
| 13 | 11/20/17 | 22 | Hybrid MPI/OpenMP/GPU |
| 13 | 11/22/17 | 23 | Hybrid MPI/OpenMP/GPU |
| 14 | 11/27/17 | 24 | Hybrid MPI/OpenMP/GPU Project discussions |
| 14 | 11/29/17 | 25 | Hybrid MPI/OpenMP/GPU Project discussions |
| 15 | 12/04/17 | 26 | Hybrid MPI/OpenMP/GPU Project discussions |
| 15 | 12/06/17 | 27 | Using R and Shiny Web Server: |
| 16 | 12/11/17 | 28 | Using R and Shiny Web Server |
| 16 | 12/13/17 | 29 | tbd Last day of classes.) |
| 17 | 12/18/17 | 30 | no in class final exam. final projects due. |
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