Phys 7411 Computational Physics: Computing for Petascale Systems

Instructors: Juana Moreno (LSU) and Karen Tomko (OSC)

Office Hours: by appointment (Karen's office hours will be held via gmail chat or skype)

Place: Johnston Hall, 338

Time: 8:30-9:30 CST, M, W, F

Lectures

Introduction (1/21/09)
Computer Systems Basics(1/23/09)
Parallel Programming Considerations (1/26/09)
2D Poisson Problem (2/2/09)
Performance Metrics (2/6/09)
Introduction to MPI (2/9/09)
OSC Parallel Programming with MPI handouts (2/11/09-2/13/09)
- MPI Framework (PDF)
- Point-to-Point Communications (PDF)
- Non-blocking Communications (PDF)
- Collective Communications (PDF)
OSC Parallel I/O Techniques (2/16/09)
- March 2002 handouts (PDF)
Monte Carlo Methods (2/18/09)
- references: Section 8.9 of text, Numerical Recipes (in C or Fortran), Chapter 6 of Introduction to Modern Statistical Mechanics by D. Candler
Languages and Compilers (2/20/09)
PGAS Language talks from PSC workshop
- Unified Parallel C (2/29/09)
- Co-Array Fortran (3/4/09)
Assignment 1 solutions (3/2/09)
- see files posted in the Phys7411 group pages
Parallel High Level Languages (3/6/09)
- OSC Introduction to Matlab (slides 202-211)
- Star-P from Interactive Supercomputing
OSC Parallel Programming with OpenMP (3/9/09/-2/13/16)
Numerical Integration Example, SC2008 Tutorial from OpenMP.org (slides 18-19)
Debugging (3/18/09)
Measuring Performance (3/20/09)
OSC Performance Tuning Techniques for Multi-core Architectures workshop (3/23/09-3/25/09, slides 38-93)
Dongarra's Dense Linear Algebra Lecture (3/27/09-4/3/09, slides 11-73, see also 85-91)
Fast Fourier Transform (4/13/09)
Introduction to GPU accelerators (4/15/09 – 4/17/09)
- slides from ARCS 2008 GPGPU Tutorial
- additional information at GPGPU.org

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