High Performance Computing by Martin Raum

There are six assignments in total, four of which are mandatory. Solutions of Assignments 4 and 5 are not mandatory but rather count towards your exam.

The first due date is rather late after the start to provide sufficient time to get acquainted with HPC and programming. Do not underestimate the time it takes to solve an assignment.

Please consider the submission instructions.

Name	Due Date	Description
C Programming	11 Sep, 5 PM	Basic programming and development tools.
Optimization	25 Sep, 5 PM	Performance measurement, diagnosis, and basic optimization.
OpenMP	09 Oct, 5 PM	OpenMP, a compiler parallelization framework.
Threads	20 Oct, 5 PM	Threads library.
OpenCL (optional)	25 Oct, 5 PM	Framework for heterogeneous computing environment (GPU, FPGA, etc.).
MPI (optional)	25 Oct, 5 PM	Message passing interface for distributed computing.

Timeline for Assignments 2 and 3

Assignments 2 and 3 are centered around the implementation of one program. Here is a suggested timeline:

Day 1: List concepts from the course material and Assignments 0 and 1 that appear useful or related to the assignment.
Day 1 and 2: Discuss the program layout and split it into subtasks.
Day 2 and 3: Implement the layout. Do layout ideas work out?
Day 3 to 5: Implement subtasks and revisit layout accordingly.
Day 5: Achieve a functional program. What about performance?
Day 6: Initiate discussions with one or two other groups. Any ideas that you have not yet thought of, but that would help to improve your program?
Day 7 to 10: Identify which parts of your program are slowest and improve them. Repeat until done. It is normal that "polishing" programs takes such a large share of the development time.

TMA881/MMA620: Assignment Due Dates

Timeline for Assignments 2 and 3