General information

• Time: Tue 1:45pm, Montefiore R7. This class is taught in English.
• Instructors:
  • Christophe Geuzaine (cgeuzaine at uliege)
  • David Colignon (david.colignon at uliege)
  • Orian Louant (orian.louant at uliege)
• Textbook: The Science of Computing: The Art of High Performance Computing, volume 1 by Victor Eijkhout, Edmond Chow and Robert van de Geijn.
• Grades: 100% oral exam during January session
• Groups for the project: Submit your group (2 students per group)

Final project deadline

The final project deadline is 20/12/2024. We will not answer technical questions after the deadline.

Schedule (tentative)

Date	Description
Tue 17/09	General introduction - Slides Connection to the HPC clusters
Tue 24/09	Presentation of the project (additional instruction) Optional: C programming language review
Tue 01/10	Computer architectures: single CPU - Slides Parallel computers - Slides Introduction to parallel programming - Slides Introduction to the computing environment - Slides and lecture notes
Tue 08/10	Introduction to MPI - Slides and Lecture notes
Tue 15/10	Introduction to OpenMP - Slides and source code of examples
Tue 22/10	Class time for project
Tue 05/11	Debugging and profiling - lectures notes
Tue 12/11	Class time for project
Tue 19/11	Introduction to directive-based GPU programming - Slides and lectures notes
Tue 26/11	Class time for project - Intermediate deadline
Tue 03/12	Class time for project
Tue 10/12	Class time for project
Tue 17/12	Class time for project
Fri 20/12	Final deadline

CÉCI account

This course requires the use of the CECI clusters for the realization of the projects. To get access, please follow the following steps:

Create a CÉCI account here

• Use your university email address and specify cgeuzaine at uliege as supervisor email
• In the Institution menu, choose
  • University: Université de Liège
  • Département: Département d'Electricité, Electronique et Informatique
  • Unité: Cours INFO0939-1 High Perf. Scient. Comput.

The clusters must be accessed from ULiège network. To connect from home, please install and configure the VPN. Instructions are available here. Instructions on how to connect to the clusters are accessible through the CECI documentation. See instructions for Windows as well as macOS/Linux.

Useful links

• Unix tutorial
• C language tutorials:
  • cprogramming.com
  • wikibooks.org
• TOP500 Supercomputing Sites