Indicative Course Schedule
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Mon 3-4 ENGN T |
Tue 3-4 ENGN T |
Thu 3-4 ENGN T |
Laboratories Thu10-12 N115 |
Assignments |
| 1:Mar 3 |
Unit introduction,
Earth Simulator,
ASCI,
APAC, the APAC
National Facility parallel hardware design, address space organisation, interconnects, cache coherency |
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| 2:Mar 10 |
Basic Communication Performance Measures, MPI |
Dr Lindsay Hood Compaq Alphaserver SC and GS1280 |
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| 3:Mar 17 | Canberra Day | No Lecture |
Dr Lindsay Hood APAC Site Visit |
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| 4:Mar 24 | Message passing with MPI | No Lecture | Embarassingly parallel problems | lab1 | |
| 5:Mar 31 |
Partitioning schemes divide and conquer |
No Lecture | Pipelined computations | ||
| 6:Apr 7 |
Synchronization |
No Lecture |
Load balancing issues |
lab2 | Ass1 Written |
| 7:Apr 14 |
Assignment 1 Presentations N101 3-5pm |
No Lecture | No Lecture | ||
| Mid Semester Break (Monday April 21 - Friday May 2) | |||||
| 8:May 5 |
Enabling the Efficient Use of SMP Clusters: The GAMESS/DDI Model Ryan Olson: N101 |
No Lecture |
Numerical and Non-Numerical examples |
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| 9:May 12 | Performance analysis tools (eg VAMPIR) | No Lecture | Assignment 2 discussion | ||
| 10:May 19 | MPI-2 | No Lecture | Shared memory parallel systems | lab3 | |
| 11:May 26 | OpenMP and threads | No Lecture | The Global Array Tools | ||
| 12:Jun 2 | No Lecture | No Lecture | The FUTURE! | lab4 Thurs 12-2pm N111 |
Ass2 Due |
| 13:Jun 9 | Queen's b/d | The GRID and summary | |||