Duration
30h Th, 15h Pr, 20h Proj.
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Description of the course:
This course tackles advanced scientific calculation methods, both from a theoretical point of view and from the point of view of the implementation of high-performance applications.
Table of Contents:
Introduction to high performance scientific computing, parallel computer architectures, latency and bandwidth, spatial and temporal locality, Amdahl's law, distributed memory programming with MPI, shared memory programming with OpenMP, algorithms for ordinary differential equations, algorothms for partial differential equations, direct and iterative linear solvers.
The course uses the C programming language for the implementation of algorithms, both serial and parallel. Practical work covers the use of parallel computers (UNIX system, remote login, command line, job scheduler) and the parallelisation of algorithms using MPI and OpenMP.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
By the end of the course the students will have studied various advanced scientific computing algorithms. They will have learned the basics of their efficient implementation on serial and parallel computers, and will be familiar with the muticore (shared memory) programming paradigm using OpenMP, and the distributed memory programming paradigm using MPI.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Mathematical analysis course; Numerical analysis course.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Theory lectures, practical computer sessions, individual and group projects.
The number of projects varies from year to year, but is typically 2 or 3. The first projet is usually assigned very early in the quadrimester, i.e. during the first or second week. The deadline for the last project usually coincides with the end of the quadrimester.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face and/or online. See the course website for up-to-date information.
Organisational adjustments related to the current health context
Recommended or required readings
Cf. course website.
Assessment methods and criteria
Below you will find information on the evaluation methods planned for in-person and remote exams as well as those planned for hybrid sessions. Depending on how the health crisis evolves, the chosen method will be communicated to you no later than one month before the start of the exam session.
Written project reports
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
This course is taught in English.
Contacts
Prof. C. Geuzaine (cgeuzaine@uliege.be)