Programming techniques for supercomputers in CAM (PTfS-CAM)10.0 ECTS
(englische Bezeichnung: Programming techniques for supercomputers in CAM)
(Prüfungsordnungsmodul: Programming techniques for supercomputers in CAM)

Lehrveranstaltungen:

• • Programming Techniques for Supercomputers
    (Vorlesung, 4 SWS, Gerhard Wellein, Di, 12:15 - 13:45, Zoom-Meeting; Mi, 16:15 - 17:45, Zoom-Meeting; Do, 16:15 - 17:45, Raum n.V.; Please register at Moodle: http://tiny.cc/PTfS or https://moodle.rrze.uni-erlangen.de/course/view.php?id=449)
  • Programming Techniques for Supercomputers - Exercises
    (Übung, 2 SWS, Gerhard Wellein, Mo, 14:15 - 15:45, Zoom-Meeting; Mi, 10:15 - 11:45, Zoom-Meeting; First tutorials: Monday, April 29th)

Empfohlene Voraussetzungen:

Experience in C/C++ or Fortran programming required; basic knowledge of MPI and OpenMP programming

Inhalt:

• Introduction to the architecture of modern supercomputers
• Single core architecture and optimisation startegies
• Memory hierarchy and data access optimization
• Concepts of parallel computers and parallel computing
• Efficient “shared memory” parallelisation (OpenMP)
• Parallelisation approaches for multi-core processors including GPUs
• Efficient “distributed memory” parallelisation (MPI)
• Roofline performance model
• Serial and parallel performance modelling
• Complete parallel implementation of a modern iterative Poisson solver

Lernziele und Kompetenzen:

Students
• acquire a comprehensive overview of programming modern supercomputers efficiently for numerical simulations
• learn modern optimisation and parallelisation strategies, guided by structured performance modelling
• acquire an insight into innovative programming techniques and alternative supercomputer architectures
• are able to implement basic kernels and a numerical method to solve PDEs with FD discretization with high hardware efficiency on parallel computers

Literatur:

G. Hager and G. Wellein: Introduction to High Performance Computing for Scientists and Engineers. CRC Computational Science Series, 2010. ISBN 978-1439811924
J. Hennessy and D. Patterson: Computer Architecture. A Quantitative Approach. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Elsevier, 2003. ISBN 1-55860-724-2

Verwendbarkeit des Moduls / Einpassung in den Musterstudienplan:

1. Computational Engineering (Rechnergestütztes Ingenieurwesen) (Master of Science)
   (Po-Vers. 2013 | TechFak | Computational Engineering (Rechnergestütztes Ingenieurwesen) (Master of Science) | Gesamtkonto | Wahlpflichtbereich Informatik | Wahlpflichtbereich Informatik | Programming techniques for supercomputers in CAM)

Studien-/Prüfungsleistungen:

Programming techniques for supercomputers in CAM (Prüfungsnummer: 58751)

(englischer Titel: Programming techniques for supercomputers in CAM)

Prüfungsleistung, mündliche Prüfung, Dauer (in Minuten): 30, benotet, 10.0 ECTS

Anteil an der Berechnung der Modulnote: 100.0 %

Erstablegung: SS 2021, 1. Wdh.: WS 2021/2022

1. Prüfer:

Gerhard Wellein