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MPI course schedule

Day Topic Duration
Monday Morning  
  Introduction. Computer architectures and programming paradigms. Message passing. Simple MPI 9:00-12:00
  Afternoon  
  Simple MPI (cont) 13:00-14:00
  Computer lab: Execute ready examples and write your own simple MPI programs 14:00-16:00
Tuesday Morning  
  Communications in MPI. Point-to-point and collective communications. Data distribution. MPI functions. Parallel debugging tools 9:00-12:00
  Afternoon  
  Computer lab: Execute ready examples and write simple MPI programs which illustrate the different types of communications in MPI and possible difficulties. Deadlocks 13:00-15:00
  Load balancing issues, (re)design of algorithms, examples. Trying the TotalView parallel debugger 15:00-17:00
Wednesday Morning  
  Advanced MPI. User-defined data types, datatype constructors. MPI functions. Programming with MPI. Linear algebra problems, operations with vectors and matrices. Data distribution continued - dense and sparse matrices 9:00-12:00
  Afternoon  
  Computer lab: Testing with some Linear Algebra operations such as matrix-vector and matrix-matrix multiplications, matrix transpose, iterative solution methods, domain decomposition 13:00-17:00
Thursday Morning  
  Advanced MPI. Communicators, virtual topologies. Parallel LU. Parallel sort algorithms 9:00-12:00
  Afternoon  
  Presentation of the assignments. 13:00-14:00
  Computer lab. 14:00-16:00
Friday Morning  
  Predicting and measuring parallel performance, scalability issues. Some MPI-2 features. MPI vs or together with OpenMP? Combining MPI and OpenMP. Summary and tendencies. 9:00-12:00
  Afternoon  
  Computer lab: Exercises and preparation for the project work 13:00-16:00

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