FI:I039 Supercomputer Architecture and - Course Information
I039 Supercomputer Architecture and Intensive Computations
Faculty of InformaticsSpring 1996
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0. 2 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. RNDr. Luděk Matyska, CSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Luděk Matyska, CSc.
- Prerequisites
- At least elementary knowledge of programming languages Fortran, C, and potentially C++ is required.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
- Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-SS)
- Information Technology (programme FI, B-IN)
- Syllabus
- High performance vector and superscalar processors.
- Uniprocesor computers, computers with small number of processors, massively parallel computers; distributed systems.
- Shared, distributed, and distributed shared memory; other alternatives. Sdílená, distribuovaná a distribuovaná sdílená paměť.
- Scalability of computers and tasks.
- Performance measurements, LINPACK test, TOP 500 list.
- High performance uniprocessor systems, programming languages, methodology of efficient program writting, basis optimization methods for vector and superscalar computers.
- Multiprocessor systems with shared memory, programming languages, decompozition of algorithms, basis optimization methods for small number of processors.
- Massively parallel systems, parallel algorithms, fine grain parallelism.
- Distributed systems, data and task decomposition, coarse grain parallelism, programming systems (PVM, LINDA, ...).
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 1996, recent)
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