High Performance Computing

More details on the assignment can be viewed at this link.

Assignment 0: Basic C Programming

• Stack and Heap allocation
• Reducing memory fragmentation
• Writing to files
• Parsing command line arguments
• Naive benchmarking

Assignment 1: Optimization

• Assembler
• Valgrind and GDB
• Inlining
• Locality
• Data dependency
• Indirect addressing
• Writing to and reading from HDD and SSD

Assignment 2: OpenMP

Implementing an efficient computation of all distances of a list of 3D points. More details can be viewed in "HPC - Oral Presentation Slides".

Assignment 3: Threads

Implementing the Newton's method for polynomials up to degree 9.

Assignment 4: OpenCL

Applying the heat diffusion equation to a grid of 2D points for a series of iterations. The computational kernels have been implemented in OpenCL.

Literature

Link to the course material.