DN2264, Parallel Computations for Large-Scale Problems, Part I, 6 ECTSThe course will be given at KTH during the academic year 2011/2012. The first lecture is Tuesday, January 15, 13-15 Lecture Room D41, Lindstedtsvägen 5 The course schedule is on the course's home page (link below). The course consists of two parts which can be taken independently:
General DescriptionDuring the last decades we observed a very fast increase in the performance of processors thus enabling to solve larger and larger problems in a reasonable amount of time. However, the speed of computation is limited by the speed of light and the molecule sizes. The way out is parallel computation: Hardware manufactures integrate more and more processing units on a single die.Parallelization helps to overcome also other bottlenecks of computations, for example:
The present course is intended to provide an introduction into the basic ideas and methods used for developing parallel applications. We will concentrate on distributed memory architectures. Applications include simple numerical algorithms, image processing, sorting, algorithms on graphs, as well as more advanced numerical techniques. A great deal of work will be spent in hands-on exercises. For those who are not comfortable with C or Fortran, a short introduction will be provided. If you are missing the first lecture, you will not get access to the computer ressources at PDC.
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Course evaluationBy the end of the course I would like to ask you to answer the questions of the course evaluation form. You will then find a question-form here.Please fill the course evaluation form. Thank you.
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