Parallel Numerics - Winter 13

Term

Winter 13

Lecturer

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Huckle

Time and Place

tba

Audience

CSE (compulsory course, 3rd semester), Mathematics (Master), Informatics (Master) (Modul IN2012 oder IN2012)

Tutorials

tba

Exam

Inspection/Review of Reexam on Monday 7.5.2012 at 10:00 in 02.05.044 and 02.05.040!

Semesterwochenstunden / ECTS Credits

SWS (2V + 2Ü) / 5 Credits

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IN2012

This course will be given in every winter term. The lectures and tutorials are conducted in English, and the course substitutes the German lecture "Numerik auf Parallelrechnern".

Contents

1. High-Performance Computing
2. Performance: Analysis, Modeling, and Measurements
3. Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms
4. Direct Solution of Sparse Linear Systems
5. Iterative Methods for Linear Systems
6. Linear Eigenvalue Problems
7. Programming in MPI

Course Material

Lecture Notes

• [Lecture notes]

Literature & External Links

1. Introduction to High Performance Scientific Computing (Eijkhout, Chow, van de Geijn) [free download]
2. Numerical Linear Algebra for High-Performance Computers (Dongarra, Duff, Sorensen, van der Vorst)
3. Parallel Algorithms for Matrix Computations (Gallivan, Heath, Ng, Ortega,...)
4. A User's Guide to MPI (Pacheco)
5. Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear Systems (Saad)
6. Loesung linearer Gleichungssysteme auf Parallelrechnern (Frommer)

1. [An Introduction To Quantum Computing for Non-Physicists]

Exam

Old Exams

• [Winter 10], [solution]
• [Winter 09], [solution]
• [Winter 08], [partial solution]
• [Winter 07]
• [Winter 06]
• [Winter 05]