Computational Methods in Systems and Control Theory

Scientific Computing II

Scientific Computing II (SS13)

Lecture:	Jens Saak	Office Hours:	on appointment
Tutorial:	Martin Köhler	Office Hours:	on appointment

Schedule - Contents - Certifications - Recommended Literature - Teaching Material - Homework and Exercises

Schedule

Lecture:	on Tuesdays, 15:30 - 17:00 hrs., G02-111	on Thursdays, 15:00 - 16:45 hrs., G05-307 (odd weeks)	Begin: Tue. 04/09/2013
Tutorial:	on Thursdays, 15:00 - 16:45 hrs., G05-307 (even weeks)

Contents

The lecture treats the efficient implementation of numerical algorithms with special focus on modern hardware architectures. Special implementation techniques for Multicore and GPU machines will be presented with higher insight. Distributed computing basics will also be presented.

Certifications

Criteria for getting a course assessment:

• at least 50% of all possible points from the homework
• at least 50% of the points in one homework ( on n-1 of n homework sheets)
• demonstrate and explain at least one exercise in the tutorial

Other possibilities to get an assessment will be announced in the lecture.

Recommended Literature

List of recommended literature

Teaching Material

Lecture Slides

• Slides Introduction
• Slides Performance Measures
• Slides Multicore and Multiprocessors Part I
• Slides Multicore and Multiprocessors Part II
• Slides Multicore and Multiprocessors Part III
• Slides Multicore and Multiprocessors Part IV
• Slides Multicore and Multiprocessors Part V
• Slides GPU Computing and Accelerators Part I
• Slides GPU Computing and Accelerators Part II
• Slides GPU Computing and Accelerators Part III
• Slides GPU Computing and Accelerators Part IV
• Slides GPU Computing and Accelerators Part V
• Slides Distributed Memory Systems Part I
• Slides Distributed Memory Systems Part II
• Slides Distributed Memory Systems Part III
• Slides Distributed Memory Systems Part IV
• Slides Distributed Memory Systems Part V

Exercise Materials

• Subroutines to measure wall- and CPU-time: timer.c timer.h
• Virtual Machine for the Exercises

Homework and Exercises

• 1st Exercise, April 19th, 2013
• 2nd Exercise/Homework, Handout: April 23rd, 2013, Return: April 30th, 2013
• 3rd Exercise/Homework, Handout: May 7th, 2013, Return: May 14th, 2013
• 4th Exercise/Homework, Handout: May 21st, 2013, Return: May 28th, 2013
• 5th Exercise/Homework, Handout: June 11th, 2013, Return: June 18th, 2013
• 6th Exercise/Homework, Handout: June 26th, 2013, Return: July 9th, 2013