HPC - Algorithms and Applications - Winter 12
- Term
- Winter 12/13
- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Michael Bader
- Time and Place
- Lecture: Monday, 14.15-15.45, MI 02.07.023 (starts Oct 22)
- Tutorial: Wednesday, 10-12, MI 02.07.023 (starts Nov 7)
- Audience
- Elective topic in Informatik Bachelor/Master/Diplom subject area Algorithms and Scientific Computing
- students in mathematics or in any science or engineering discipline are welcome!
- Tutorials
- Oliver Meister
- Exam
- Monday, Feb 4, 2013; 14-16 in room MI 02.07.023 (time and room of the lecture) - Review: Wednesday, March 27th/March 6th; 10am to 12am in LRZ Room E.2.040
- Semesterwochenstunden / ECTS Credits
- 3 SWS (2V + 1Ü) / 4 ECTS
- TUMonline
- https://campus.tum.de/tumonline/lv.detail?clvnr=950078529
Contents
News
- This lecture will be held for the first time in winter term 2012/13, however, will be similar in content to the lecture Algorithms of Scientific Computing II - Winter 11.
- Together with the lecture High Performance Computing - Programming Paradigms and Scalability (formerly known as "Parallel Programming and HPC") this lecture will form a 2-semester track of HPC lectures
- The exam grades are now available in TUM Online. An exam review will take place on Wednesday, Feb 27th and Wdnesday, Mar 6th from 10am to 12am in LRZ Room E.2.040.
Content
The lecture will have a focus on parallel algorithms and implementation techniques in the field of numerical simulation and high performance computing, such as:
- linear algebra problems on dense and sparse matrices
- simulation on structured and unstructured meshes
- particle-based simulations (with long-range and short-range interactions)
- spectral methods (parallel FFT and related algorithms)
- Monte Carlo and statistical methods
(a.k.a. the seven dwarfs of HPC).
The accompanying tutorials will include practical assignments, and will concentrate on the programming of GPU and accelerator platforms.
Lecture Material
Lecture slides will be published here after the lessons:
- Oct 22: Intro
- Oct 22, Oct 29: Fundamentals - Parallel Architectures, Models, and Languages
- Oct 29, Nov 5, Nov 12: Dwarf No. 1 - Dense Linear Algebra;
- additional material: article by Elmroth et al. in SIAM Review
- chapter In-core dense matrices of the ScaLAPACK User's Guide
- Nov 19, Nov 26: Dwarf No. 5 - Structured Grids
- articles by M. Frigo and V. Strumpen:
Cache oblivious stencil operations (preprint);
The memory behavior of cache oblivious stencil operations (preprint can be found via Google) - article by K. Datta et al. in SIAM Review (preprint)
- articles by M. Frigo and V. Strumpen:
- Nov 26, Dec 3: Structured Grids and Space-filling Curves, Solving the Shallow Water Equations
- Maple worksheets: hilbert_adap.mw (also as PDF);
- Dec 10: Dwarf No. 6 - Unstructured Grids and Partitioning
- Dec 17: Partitioning and Space-filling Curves revisited
- Maple worksheets: hilbert-arith-part.mw (also as PDF); reftree_hilbert_vertexlab.mw (also as PDF);
- related article by Mitchell: journal article, preprint, webpage by W. Mitchell on reftree method
- Jan 7: Dwarf no. 2 - Sparse Linear Algebra: Application example (page rank) and data structures
- Jan 14: Parallel Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication
- lecture material accompanying the book by R. Bisseling (see esp. the slides psc4_3.pdf, psc4_4.pdf, psc4_5.pdf, and psc4_6.pdf)
- Jan 21: Dwarf no. 4: N-body methods and implementation
- Maple worksheet: twobody.mw (also as PDF)
- article on Fast Multipole methods by C.R. Anderson
- article by Barnes & Hut in Nature (both articles can be accessed via TUM ebib-access)
Tutorials
Roughly every second week a two hour tutorial will take place (details at page top; days and time will be announced here and in the lectures). The assignments and their solutions will be gradually posted here.
- Nov 7th: Introduction to CUDA
Source code for Exercise 1 Solution
Source code for Exercise 2 Solution
- Nov 28th: The Shallow Water Equations and CUDA
Source code for Exercise 3 Solution
- Dec 13th: Further Topics on SWE and CUDA
Source code for Exercise 4 Solution
- Jan 9th: Sparse Linear Algebra in CUDA
Source code for Exercise 5 (my.mtx and resp. solution included) Solution
- Jan 23rd: Solving the heat equation with CUDA
Source code for the heat equation solver
Repeat Exam
- the repeat exam will be a written exam, if more than 12 students register for the exam; otherwise it will be an oral exam
- a written exam would take place on April, 16, from 16.00 (room to be announced); oral exam will be on this day and further days in the same week
- no helping material of any kind will be allowed for the exam
- please make sure that you register for the exam in TUMonline
- the exam will extend over all topics discussed in the lectures and tutorials:
- approx. 30% of the questions will deal with questions related to the tutorials; basic knowledge about GPU programming with CUDA is thus necessary
- the part on tree methods (Barnes-Hut and Fast Multipole algorithms) for N-body problems are excluded from the exam
Literature and Online Material
- R.H. Bisseling: Parallel Scientific Computing - A structured approach using BSP and MPI, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Course notes on Rob Bisseling's lecture on Parallel Algorithms (based on the text book)
- T.G. Mattson, B.A. Sanders, B.L. Massingill: Patterns for Parallel Programming, Addison-Wesley, 2005
- D.B. Kirk, W.W. Hwu: Programming Massively Parallel Processors - A Hands-on Approach, Morgan-Kaufman, 2010
- J. Sanders, E. Kandrot: CUDA by Example, Addison-Wesley, 2011
Prerequisites
Lecture IN0019 Numerical Programming or similar basic knowledge in numerical methods. Basic knowledge in parallel programming (lecture Parallel Programming, Parallele Algorithmen und Höchstleistungsrechnen, or similar) is helpful (as is a certain interest in problems from scientific computing and numerical simulation), but not strictly required.
