Postgraduate Course: Message-Passing Programming (PGPH11078)
Course Outline
| School |
School of Physics and Astronomy |
College |
College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits |
10 |
| Home subject area |
Postgraduate (School of Physics and Astronomy) |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None
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Taught in Gaelic? |
No |
| Course description |
The course will cover the the following topics:
&· The message-passing model
&· Message-passing parallelisation of a regular domain code
&· MPI terminology
&· The anatomy of send and receive (synchronous and asynchronous)
&· Point-to-point message-passing example (pi)
&· Bandwidth and latency via pingpong (synchronous and asynchronous)
&· Non-blocking operations
&· Collectives
&· Communicator management: topologies and partitioning
&· Derived datatypes (focusing mainly on array subsections)
&· Practicalities / Hints and Tips
&· MPI implementations |
Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course students should be able to:
&· Understand the message-passing model in detail.
&· Explain the circumstances which cause issues such as deadlock.
&· Implement standard message-passing algorithms in MPI.
&· Debug simple MPI codes.
&· Measure and comment on the performance of MPI codes.
&· Design and implement efficient parallel programs to solve regular-grid problems. |
Assessment Information
| 100% Group-based Coursework |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Study Pattern |
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| Keywords |
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Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Judy Hardy
Tel: (0131 6)50 6716
Email: j.hardy@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Yuhua Lei
Tel: (0131 6) 517067
Email: yuhua.lei@ed.ac.uk |
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