ARCS

Multicore Computing

Overview

• Classes: Tue 13:30-14:45, Thu 16:30-17:45
• Location: 22003
• Instructor: Hwansoo Han
• T.A.: Hyunjun Kim

Text Books

• Parallel Computer Architecture, D. Culler, J.P. Singh.
• Parallel Programming in C with MPI and OpenMP, M.J. Quinn
• Using OpenMP: Portable Shared Memory Parallel Programming, B. Chapman, G. Jost, R.v.d. Pas, D.J. Kuck
• Using MPI: Portable Parallel Programming with the Message Passing Interface (2nd ed), W. Gropp, E. Lusk, A. Skjellum

Supplements

• Install Ubuntu on VirtualBox, (on Mac), install build-essential

Lecture Schedule

Weeks	Topics	Slides
1st	Introduction, Parallel Computing (Ch1.1)
2nd	Convergence (Ch1.2)
3rd	Parallel Software Design (slides)
4th	Parallel Programming Languages 1 - OpenMP (slides)
5th	Parallel Programming Languages 2 - MPI (slides)
6th	Parallel Programming Languages 3 - Pthreads (slides)
7th	Vectorization - SIMD Programming (Slides)
8th	Regular classes on 4/19(T),4/21(Th)
9th	[Midterm Exam] 4/28(Thu) 4:30-5:45
10th	GPGPU - CUDA (slides)
11th	GPGPU - OpenCL (slides)
12th	Extra Class on 5/18(W) 8:00am-8:50am, No Classes on 5/19(Th) and 5/24(T)
13th	Shared Memory Multiprocessors (Ch5~5.4)
14th	Scalable Multiprocessors (Ch6.3, Ch8~8.3, 8.10)
15th	Synchronization (Ch5.5, Ch7.9)
16th	[Final Exam] 6/16 (Thu) 16:30-17:45

Programming Project

• PA#1: 3D Game of Life (OpenMP/MPI) - due by 4/15(Fri) midnight (changed due date)
• PA#2: Matrix Multiplication with SSE - due by 5/23(Mon) midnight
  • GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) - online documents
    • x86 built-in functions: gcc 4.8.0
• PA#3: Matrix Multiplication with CUDA - due by 6/10(Fri) midnight

OpenMP, MPI, CUDA Resources

• OpenMP: Tutorial, Examples, SC08 Tutorial
• MPICH2: Tutorial, Installer's Guide, User's Guide, MPI by Example
• CUDA: Tutorial, CUDA C/C++

Other Resources

• Parallel Computing -