• Basic knowledge of current HPC architectures and communication networks, problems and challenges
• Understanding the memory hierarchy of modern processors, cache-aware and cache-oblivious algorithms
• Mastering advanced features of MPI and/or other interfaces for HPC
• Knowledge of problems, algorithms, solutions and tools for HPC
  
  

Overview of current HPC architectures and communication networks, problems, algorithms and solutions (with project/exercises); memory-hierarchy (with project/exercise), advanced MPI programming (with project/exercise), tools, performance models, libraries (with project/exercise)

ECTS Breakdown

• Overview, 3.3., planning: 1h
• Lectures: 14x2h = 28h
• Lecture preparation and digestion: 14x1h = 14h
• Project/exercise 1: 14h
• Project/exercise 2: 14h
• Oral exam/project presentation, including preparation: 4h

Total: 75h = 3.0 ECTS

Exercises, successful programming projects, oral presentation

Introduction to Parallel Computing