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Parallel Algorithms and Architectures

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Course type Lecture
Instructors Bertil Schmidt, Prof. Dr., Adrianto Wirawan, Dr., Yongchao Liu, Dr., Hoang-Vu Dang, B.Sc.
Time Thursday, 12:15–13:45
Recurrence weekly from Apr 19, 2012 until Jul 19, 2012
First session Apr 19, 2012 12:15 PM
Location 03-428
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Text Book

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  • PRAM: Miller, Boxer: “Algorithms Sequential & Parallel: A Unified Approach”, Charles River Media 2005 
  • MPI and OpenMP: Quinn: Parallel Programming in C with MPI and OpenMP, McGraw-Hill, 2004 
  • CUDA: Kirk, Hwu: “Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach”, Elsevier 2010 

Exam

Final grade only based on the exam result 

Exam Admission

  • At least 50% of the overall possible marks in Tutorials 
  • At least 50% of the overall possible marks in Practicals 
  • Regular participation in Tutorials (Anwesenheitskontrolle!)  

Tutorials/Practicals

  • Submission in groups of 2 or 3 Students
  • Each Student should at least present once during the semester
  • Tutorial submissions on Wednesday, 11am (Hardcopy or by email to Yongchao Liu)
 

Schedule:

Week Lecture Topic Hand-out Submission Tutorial
1 19-Apr Introduction - - -
2 26-Apr Networks/Amdahl/PRAM Model T1 02-May -
3 03-May PRAM Model T2 09-May T1
4 10-May MPI T3 16-May T2
5 17-May -(Himmelfahrt) Practical 22-Jun T3
6 24-May MPI T4 30-May Practical
7 31-May CUDA T5 06-Jun  T4
8 07-Jun - (Frohnleichnahm) - - T5
9 14-Jun CUDA T6 20-Jun Practical
10 21-Jun OpenMP T7 27-Jun  T6
11 28-Jun Selected Parallel Algorithms T8 04-Jul T7
12 05-Jul Selected Parallel Algorithms T9 11-Jul T8
13 12-Jul Selected Parallel Algorithms - - T9
14 19-Jul EXAM - - -