INFO 0939: High Performance Scientific Computing

INFO 0939: High Performance Scientific Computing - Fall 2021

Time: Tue 2:00pm, Montefiore 2.93. This class is taught in English.
Instructor: Christophe Geuzaine (cgeuzaine at uliege), David Colignon (david.colignon at uliege) and Orian Louant (orian.louant at uliege)
TA: Anthony Royer (anthony.royer at uliege) and Matteo Cicuttin (matteo.cicuttin at uliege)
Textbook: Introduction to High-Performance Scientific Computing, by Victor Eijkhout, Edmond Chow and Robert van de Geijn.
Grades: 100% on written project reports (evaluation)

	Courses	Projects
Tue 14/09	General introduction (slides); Connection to the HPC clusters
Tue 21/09	Computer architectures, single CPU (slides); Explanations for project 1; [Optional: C programming language review]	Project 1 (updated 13/10/2021)
Tue 28/09	Computer architectures, parallel computers (slides); Introduction to parallel programming (slides); Introduction to the computing environment (slides)
Tue 05/10	Introduction to OpenMP (slides, examples)
Tue 12/10	More on OpenMP
Tue 19/10	Code debugging and profiling (codes Git repository, slides)
Tue 26/10	Introduction to MPI (slides, code example); Explanations for project 2	Final deadline for project 1; Project 2 (updated 19/11/2021)
Tue 02/11	No class
Tue 09/11	More on MPI (slides) - [Optional: Numerical solution of PDEs review (slides, slides)]
Tue 16/11	Introduction to GPUs (slides);
Tue 23/11	Class time for project 2. Intermediate deadline of project 2 on 26/11.
Tue 30/11	Class time for project 2
Tue 07/12	Class time for project 2
Tue 14/12	Directive-based GPU programming (Slides); Class time for project 2
Tue 14/12		Final deadline for project 2

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 CECI account here.
- Use your university email address and specify cgeuzaine at uliege as supervisor email
- For 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.

CECI web site to create an account on the HPC clusters (must be accessed from ULiège network)
Montefiore submission plaform to submit your projects
Unix tutorial
C language tutorials: cprogramming.com, wikibooks.org, siteduzero.com
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