Postgraduate Course: Message-Passing Programming (PGPH11078)
Course Outline
| School | School of Physics and Astronomy |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Postgraduate (School of Physics and Astronomy) |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The course will cover the 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 |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course students should 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.
- Debug simple MPI codes.
- Measure and comment on the performance of MPI codes.
- Design and implement efficient parallel programs to solve regular-grid problems. |
Assessment Information
| 100% Coursework |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Keywords | MPP |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr David Henty
Tel: (0131 6)50 5960
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Course secretary | Yuhua Lei
Tel: (0131 6) 517067
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