Postgraduate Course: Message-Passing Programming (PGPH11078)

Course Outline
School	School of Physics and Astronomy	College	College of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	The course will cover the following topics: - The message-passing model - Message-passing parallelisation of a regular domain code - MPI terminology - The anatomy of send and receive (synchronous and asynchronous) - Point-to-point message-passing example (pi) - Bandwidth and latency via pingpong (synchronous and asynchronous) - Non-blocking operations - Collectives - Communicator management: topologies and partitioning - Derived datatypes (focusing mainly on array subsections) - Practicalities / Hints and Tips - MPI implementations
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	Ability to program in C or Fortran.

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 14, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 12, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 72 )
Additional Information (Learning and Teaching)	Please contact the School for further information
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	100% Coursework
Feedback	Not entered
No Exam Information

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: Understand the message-passing model in detail. Explain the circumstances which cause issues such as deadlock. Implement standard message-passing algorithms in MPI. Measure and comment on the performance of MPI codes. Design, implement and debug efficient parallel programs to solve regular-grid problems.