INFO 0939: High Performance Scientific Computing

INFO 0939: High Performance Scientific Computing - Fall 2022

Time: Tue 2:00pm, Montefiore R7. This class is taught in English.
Instructors: David Colignon (david.colignon at uliege), Orian Louant (orian.louant at uliege) and Christophe Geuzaine (cgeuzaine at uliege)
Textbook: Introduction to High-Performance Scientific Computing, by Victor Eijkhout, Edmond Chow and Robert van de Geijn.
Grades: 100% oral exam during January session (projet presentation)

	Course	Project
Tue 20/09	General introduction (slides); Connection to the HPC clusters
Tue 27/09	No class
Tue 04/10	Computer architectures, single CPU (slides to read before class); Presentation of the project	Project statement - Additional info (including deadlines)
Tue 11/10	Computer architectures, parallel computers (slides to read before class); Introduction to parallel programming (slides to read before class); Introduction to the computing environment (slides), C refresher (examples)
Tue 18/10	Introduction to OpenMP (slides, examples)
Tue 25/10	More on OpenMP	Project intermediate deadline 1 (serial version)
Tue 01/11	No class
Tue 08/11	MPI (slides, code example)
Tue 15/11	Class time for project
Tue 22/11	Class time for project (local 1.97)	Project intermediate deadline 2 (OpenMP version)
Tue 29/11	Class time for project
Tue 06/12	Class time for project
Tue 13/12	Class time for project
Tue 20/12	Class time for project
Fri 13/01/2023		Project final deadline 3 (MPI version)
20&23/01/2023	Exam (local I.21; Teams link)

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)
On NIC5 the file /CECI/proj/INFO0939/README.txt
Unix tutorial
C language tutorials: cprogramming.com, wikibooks.org, siteduzero.com
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