Postgraduate Course: Advanced Parallel Programming (PGPH11074)
Course Outline
School | School of Physics and Astronomy |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
Summary | The course will cover the following topics:
- Scalability challenges
- Leading-edge HPC architectures
- MPI Internals
- Message-passing optimisations
- Parallel performance tools
- Performance modelling
- Single-sided protocols
- Exploiting heterogeneous architectures
- Advanced load-balancing techniques
- Parallel file systems and parallel IO
- Verification and fault tolerance
- Choice of programming model/language
These are all generic topics but would be demonstrated in practice on a particular architecture, eg we would use HECToR for the first couple of years. |
Course description |
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Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course students should be able to:
- Describe the various factors that limit scalability in large-scale parallel programs
- Diagnose parallel performance problems using analysis tools.
- Design and apply appropriate parallel optimisation techniques.
- Exploit an understanding of the architectures of HPC systems to write more efficient parallel codes.
- Implement appropriate correctness tests in simulation codes.
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Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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Keywords | APP (S2) |
Contacts
Course organiser | Dr Daniel Holmes
Tel:
Email: dholmes@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Ben Morse
Tel: (0131 6)51 3398
Email: Ben.Morse@ed.ac.uk |
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