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High Performance Scientific Computing COMP4300

Consultation Time

Best time to find me are Wednesday-Friday, but not Thursday 15:00-17:00. At the moment I don't mind if you interrupt me at any time. As the semester progresses we may set specific office hours if that is useful. Otherwise email me for an appointment if necessary. Or try phoning (6125 4386) me before coming to my office.

Lecture and Laboratory Times and Locations

  • Lecture 1: Wednesday, 09:00-10:00, HAG052
  • Lecture 2: Thursday, 14:00-15:00, PSYC08
  • Lecture 3: Friday, 16:00-17:00, PSYC08
  • Laboratory Group 1: Wednesday, 15:00-17:00, N114
  • Laboratory Group 2: Friday, 10:00-12:00, N112
You attend just one of the laboratory sessions. Sign up for one via streams

Schedule with indicative content

  Lectures  
Week 
L1 Wed 09:00
HA G052
L2 Thu 14:00
PSYC G8
L3 Fri 16:00
PSYC G8
 Laboratories
1:Feb19 Unit Introduction Parallel Hardware  
2:Feb26 University closed due to storm damage and recovery  
3:Mar 5 Message Passing Communication Performance Modeling  
4:Mar 12 Parallelisation Schemes  MPI/APAC
5:Mar 19 Data Partitioning/Assignment 1 Start 3.15pm at
Leonard Huxley Theatre
with tour of APAC System
by
Jay Larson
 MPI
6:Mar 26 Synchronization Assignment 1 Pipeline Parallelisation  MPI
7:Apr 2 In Lecture Quiz
(10% of course mark)
Termination
Quiz return
Lab 2 Challenge
Easter  
Mid Semester Break (Monday April 9 - Friday April 20 inclusive)
8:Apr 23 Anzac Day Shared Address Space:
Hardware
Shared Address Space:
Programming
 
9:Apr 30 pthreads OpenMP GCC and OpenMP
Ben Elliston (IBM)
 
10:May 7 pthreads (cont) Assignment 2
Discussion
GCC and Inst. Level Parallelism
Ben Elliston (IBM)
 Shared Memory
11:May 14 Memory Consistency Models Software Distributed
Shared Memory
MPI-2  Shared Memory
12:May 21 GRID Computing
Jay Larson (APAC NF)
GRID/Climate
Jay Larson (APAC NF)
Global Arrays/SIMD Languages  MPI2 etc
13:May 28 No Lecture FINAL LECTURE
Review Course
Overview of Exam
Take Questions
No Lecture  
Challenging Exam!!