High Performance Computing

Course n. 02614 held by Prof. Bernd Dammann, at the Denmark Technical University.

Webpage of the course: http://kurser.dtu.dk/course/02614.

Week 1: Tuning towards increasing performances

1. [2017-01-02]: Introduction to Makefile, plotting tools, HPC basis with some exercises.
2. [2017-01-03]: Tuning C and Fortran programs; some specific compiler options to speed up programs and some analyzing tools.
3. [2017-01-04]: Tuning on serial programs and start working on the first assignment.
4. [2017-01-05_06]: Work on the first assignment [pdf].

Week 2: OpenMP

1. [2017-01-09]: Introduction to OpenMP with examples, and exercises.
2. [2017-01-10]: Parallel programming in OpenMP.
3. [2017-01-11]: Optimization of parallel OpenMP programs.
4. [2017-01-12_13]: Work on the second assignment [pdf].

Week 3: GPU computing

1. [2017-01-16]: Introduction to GPU computing with CUDA.
2. [2017-01-17]: Diving into CUDA specifications with examples of optimization and tuning.
3. [2017-01-18_20]: Work on the third assignment [pdf] (CUDA kernels on multidimensional grids, manual loop blocking on shared memory, etc).