Parallel Computing for Computational Mechanics

General

• Syllabus • Campus entry • Poster (PDF)

Notices

The course will take place on Wednesdays, 11:45–14:00 at the CCES seminar room 115 in Rogowski building, Schinkelstr. 2 (right staircase).

For the final class on 22.07 there is a reading assignment, involving one of the following PDF reprints (RWTH only):

• The End of Moore's Law?
• Molecular Computing
• Quantum Computing
• DNA Computing

Lecture Notes

Lecture slides are posted here in PDF format as the course goes on. They should be printed at 205% magnification (or fit to paper size), preferably 4-up to save paper!

• 2009.07.22 Lecture 23 (future of computing); topics • slides (PDF)
• 2009.07.22 Lecture 22 (parallel CM code 3); topics • slides (PDF)
• 2009.07.15 Lecture 21 (parallel CM code 2); topics • slides (PDF)
• 2009.07.15 Lecture 20 (parallel CM code 1); topics • slides (PDF)
• 2009.07.08 Lecture 19 (code management); topics • slides (PDF)
• 2009.07.08 Lecture 18 (MPI-2, BSP model); topics • slides (PDF)
• 2009.07.01 Lecture 17 (MPI details); topics • slides (PDF)
• 2009.07.01 Lecture 16 (MPI introduction); topics • slides (PDF)
• 2009.06.24 Lecture 15 (Parallel Virtual Machine); topics • slides (PDF)
• 2009.06.24 Lecture 14 (message-passing introduction); topics • slides (PDF)
• 2009.06.17 Lecture 13 (HPF discussion); topics • slides (PDF)
• 2009.06.17 Lecture 12 (OpenMP exercises, HPF introduction); topics • slides (PDF)
• 2009.05.27 Lecture 11 (loop-level parallelism, OpenMP): topics • slides (PDF)
• 2009.05.27 Lecture 10 (topologies, current architectures): topics • slides (PDF)
• 2009.05.20 Lecture 9 (motivation for parallelism): topics • slides (PDF)
• 2009.05.20 Lecture 8 (automatic scalar optimization): topics • slides (PDF)
• 2009.05.13 Lecture 7 (manual scalar optimization): topics • slides (PDF)
• 2009.05.13 Lecture 6 (current CPUs): topics • slides (PDF)
• 2009.05.06 Lecture 5 (CPU performance, memory hierarchy): topics • slides (PDF)
• 2009.05.06 Lecture 4 (CM code: equation system, visualization): topics • slides (PDF)
• 2009.04.29 Lecture 3 (CM code: mesh generation): topics • slides (PDF)
• 2009.04.22 Lecture 2 (CM code: idealization): topics • slides (PDF)
• 2009.04.15 Lecture 1 (motivation): topics • slides (PDF)

Previous web pages

• RWTH Aachen: 2008, 2007, 2006 and 2005
• TU München 2004
• Rice University: 2003 (and earlier years)

Links

• Our Parallel Programming link collection.