Overview
- SWS: 2V + 2Ü - 4 ECTS
- The lecture will be offered in English.
- There is a practical course complementing this lecture. It is highly recommended to take part in both the lecture and the practical course.
Content
Graphics processors contain hundreds of parallel processing elements and thus enable us to explore this realm of massively parallel computing today. The high number of parallel cores poses a great challenge for software design that must expose massive parallelism to benefit from the new hardware. The main purpose of the lecture is to teach practical algorithm design for such parallel hardware.
- Introduction to Parallel Computing
- Basic Algorithms:
- Map, reduce, parallel branching, sorting
- Parallel data storage and retrieval
- Parallel Computation:
- FFT, particle systems
- Parallel linear equation solvers, parallel PDEs
- Parallel complexity analysis and profiling
- System integration and graphics processor clusters
- Student Projects
Script, schedule and projects
News
Details about how to submit which information are on the first exercise sheet.
Criteria
Weekly Exercises
- groups of two students are allowed
- formal exercises are handed out during the first four weeks
- it is recommended to participate in the practical course which starts right after
Oral exam
- There will be an oral exam at the end of term
Grading
- 30% exercises
- 70% oral exam