Study Material

Table of contents:

• Fortran
• Make and related tools
• TotalView debugger
• MPI
• Projects
• Access to the computer systems

Fortran

Ian and Jane's webpages on Fortran: http://kcl.ac.uk/kis/support/cit/fortran/f90home.html

Book:
Ian Chivers and Jane Sleightholme, Introduction to Programming with Fortran. Springer, 2006.

Examples:
Example files are available in ZIP or tar.gz format, also from this directory.

If you don't want to use the Sun Studio IDE, you can put this Makefile into the directory with the code examples, and use

  make example
  

to generate the examples (replace example above with the name of the source file without the .f90 extension).

Make and other tools

If you are interested in how make (and Makefiles) works, take a look at the handouts on 'Tools for HPC' (PDF) from the DTU course '02614 - High-Performance Computing'. There is a corresponding set of exercises available as well, if you want to dig deeper into the topic (self-study).

The TotalView debugger

On the DTU Solaris systems you have access to the TotalView debugger. TotalView is a multi-platform parallel debugger, and a tutorial on TotalView is available from the Livermore Computing Center.

You can also browse the documentation installed locally (PDF files):

• User's Guide
• Reference Guide
• GUI Commands Guide

Message Passing Interface (MPI)

Handouts of the lecture notes:

• Introduction
• Day 1
• Day 2
• Day 3
• Day 4
• Debugging with TotalView
• Day 5

Lab exercises

• Lab 1: Instructions
• Lab 1: Files
• Lab 2: Instructions
• Lab 2: Files
• Lab 3: Instructions
• Lab 3: Files
• Lab 4: Instructions
• Lab 4: Files

Useful links

• MPI Forum
• MPI Standard - version 1.1
• MPI Standard - version 2.0
• Open MPI - Open Source MPI-2 implementation
• MPICH - A Portable Implementation of MPI
• 'MPI the complete reference' by M Snir et al. - on-line version of the book
• 'Using MPI: Portable Parallel Programming with the Message-Passing Interface' - on-line material from the book
• 'Parallel Programming with MPI' - on-line material from the book

Projects

You can choose among the 5 different assignments, described below:

• Dense Matrix Multiplication
• A Parallel N-body Solver
  • Literature and source file for the N-body Solver
• Parallelizing Topology Optimization
• Solving the Poisson Problem in Parallel
• Implementing Parallel Quick-sort

The deadline for handing in the reports (paper copy!) - no group reports, one report per student! - is January 30, 2008.

Access to the computer systems

A short description of the computer setup, how to setup your account, etc can be found on an extra page.