Course details

Parallel System Architecture and Programming

ARC Acad. year 2018/2019 Summer semester 5 credits

Current academic year

The course covers architecture and programming of parallel systems with functional- and data-parallelism. First the parallel system theory and program parallelization are discussed. Programming for shared memory systems in OpenMP follows and then the most proliferated multi-core multiprocessors (SMP) and the advanced DSM NUMA systems are described.  The course goes on in message passing programming in standardized interface MPI.  Interconnection networks are dealt with separately and then their role in clusters, many-core chips and in the most powerful systems is revealed.

Guarantor

Jaroš Jiří, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DCSY)

Language of instruction

Czech

Completion

Credit+Examination (written)

Time span

  • 26 hrs lectures
  • 12 hrs pc labs
  • 14 hrs projects

Assessment points

  • 60 pts final exam (written part)
  • 10 pts mid-term test (8 pts written part, 2 pts test part)
  • 30 pts projects

Department

Department of Computer Systems (UPSY)

Lecturer

Jaroš Jiří, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DCSY)

Instructor

Jaroš Marta, Ing., Ph.D. (DCSY)
Kukliš Filip, Ing.

Subject specific learning outcomes and competences

Overview of principles of parallel system design and of interconnection networks, communication techniques and algorithms. Survey of parallelization techniques of fundamental scientific problems, knowledge of parallel programming in MPI and OpenMP. Practical experience with the work on supercomputers Anselm and Salomon.

Knowledge of capabilities and limitations of parallel processing, ability to estimate performance of parallel applications. Language means for process/thread communication and synchronization. Competence in hardware-software platforms for high-performance computing and simulations.

Learning objectives

To orientate oneself in parallel systems on the market, be able to assess communication and computing possibilities of a particular architecture and to predict the performance of parallel applications. To get acquainted with the most important parallel programming tools (MPI, OpenMP), to learn their practical use and solving problems in parallel.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Von-Neumann computer architecture, computer memory hierarchy, cache memories and their organization, programming in assembly and in C/C++.

Study literature

  • current PPT slides for lectures
  • http://dolores.sp.cs.cmu.edu/spring2013/
  • http://www.cs.kent.edu/~jbaker/ParallelProg-Sp11/ 4.
  • Pacecho, P.: Introduction to Parallel Programming. Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 2011, 392 s., ISBN: 9780123742605
  • Hennessy, J.L., Patterson, D.A.: Computer Architecture - A Quantitative Approach. 5. vydání, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, Inc., 2012, 856 s., ISBN: 9780123838728

Syllabus of lectures

  1. Introduction to parallel processing.
  2. Patterns for parallel programming.
  3. Shared memory programming - Introduction into OpenMP.
  4. Synchronization and performance awareness in OpenMP.
  5. Shared memory and cache coherency.
  6. Components of symmetrical multiprocessors.
  7. CC NUMA DSM architectures.
  8. Message passing interface.
  9. Collective communications, communicators, and disk operations.
  10. Hybrid programming OpenMP/MPI
  11. Interconnection networks: topology and routing algorithms.
  12. Interconnection networks: switching, flow control, message processing and performance.
  13. Message-passing architectures, current supercomputer systems. Distributed file systems.

Syllabus of computer exercises

  1. Anselm and Salomon supercomputer intro
  2. OpenMP: Loops and sections
  3. OpenMP: Tasks and synchronization
  4. MPI: Point-to-point communications
  5. MPI: Collective communications
  6. MPI: I/O, debuggers, profilers and traces

Syllabus - others, projects and individual work of students

  • Development of an application on SMP in OpenMP on a NUMA node.
  • A parallel program in MPI on the supercomputer.

Progress assessment

Assessment of two projects, 13 hours in total and, computer laboratories and a midterm examination.
Exam prerequisites:
To get 20 out of 40 points for projects and midterm examination.

Controlled instruction

  • Missed labs can be substituted in alternative dates (monday or friday)
  • There will be a place for missed labs in the last week of the semester.

Exam prerequisites

To get 20 out of 40 points for projects and midterm examination.

Course inclusion in study plans

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