High Performance Computing

Basic information about the course

Index

Introduction

• Week 01:

  • lectures: Introduction, Architectures
  • labs: cancelled

• Week 02:

  • lectures: Cluster, Serial patterns
  • labs: Arnes Cluster

• Week 03:

  • lectures: Pattern: map, Shared-memory Systems, OpenMP Basics, Parallel for
  • labs: Assignment 1 - Parallel Seam Carving

• Week 04:

  • lectures: Synchronization with OpenMP, Performance Issues
  • labs: Consultations regarding Assignment 1

• Week 05:

  • lectures: Graphics Processing Units, CUDA Programming Interface,
  • labs: Assignment 1 report defense

• Week 06:

  • lectures: Patterns with CUDA: stencil and reduce
  • labs: Assignment 2 - Lenia

• Week 07:

  • lectures: Patterns with CUDA: Scan, Dense Matrix Multiplication
  • labs: Consultations regarding Assignment 2

• Week 08:

  • lectures: Sparse Matrix-vector Multiplication
  • labs: Assignment 2 report defense

• Week 09:

  • lectures: Invited lecture from Prof. Amr El Abbadi, University of California, Santa Barbara. Distributed Systems and Databases of the Globe Unite!
  • labs: Assignment 3 - Molecular Dynamics

• Week 10:

  • lectures: Distributed-memory Systems, MPI
  • labs: Consultations (Zoom)

• Week 11:

  • lectures: MPI Collectives, Data Reorganization Patterns, MPI Data Types
  • labs: Assignment 3 report defense

• Week 12:

  • lectures: NCCL, Patterns: Fork-join
  • labs: Assignment 4 - Lenia with MPI

• Week 13:

  • lectures: Performance Measures
  • labs: Consultations regarding Assignment 4

• Week 14:

  • lectures:
  • labs: Assignment 4 report defense

• Exams:

  • 12. 6. 2026
  • 22. 6. 2026