This practical course complements the block course on Massively Parallel Computing. Visiting the practical course without attending the block course is not allowed.
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 practical course is to experience and practice the design of massively parallel applications on a student selected topic. The aim is to take a computationally hard problem, to analyze tasks and necessary data structures, to design a demanding parallel application, and to finally turn it into an efficient massively parallel implementation.
News
For joining this praktikum, please enroll in Ilias.
During the semester, the meetings as well as the Ilias lecture site will be the primary communication medium.
Criteria
Student Project
long term assignment til end of July 2015
students select topics from any field, needs to be computationally intense
sample problems on current research topics in various fields will be announced
students are required to provide a written project proposal
they need to implement the project and
present the solution during the last lectures
written project summary is due in August 2015
Grading
will depend on the quality of the project solution, on the evaluation of results and on the difficulty and the realization
