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"Parallel Processing (Parallelverarbeitung)" (Lecture + Lab)    Winter 2024/25

  • Contents: Basics of parallel computer architecture, principles and practice of parallel programming, with focus on OpenMP and MPI
  • Prerequisites in terms of content: Algorithms and Data Structures, Object oriented and functional Programming, Operating Systems and Concurrent Programming
  • Details: Module description in unisono (mostly in German), description in English (page 26)
  • Examination: written electronic exam (60 minutes, in German or in English);
    for students in PO 2012, admission to the examination requires the successful participation in the lab
  • Link to further information in unisono (date/time etc.): Lecture, Lab
  • Link to the moodle course.

Announcements


26.09.2024
The exam will presumably take place on Tuesday, February, 25th 2025 at 09:00 s.t. in Room PB-C 101.

Exam duration will be 60 minutes. It will be an open book exam, i.e., you are allowed to use printed materials like lecture slides, scripts, books, own notes, etc., but no electronic devices or communication means. You also will get a PDF Dodument with the most important OpenMP pragmas and MPI routines.
The exam will be conducted electronically using the Q-Exam system. The computers (laptops) will be provided by the university. To get acquainted with the system, please have a look at the demo exams (select the exam named "Demo-Prüfung Parallelverarbeitung") and the screen casts provided in the moodle course! If you have questions or problems, please contact the e-assessment support team (e-klausuren@uni-siegen.de). You can also ask questions immediately before the exam starts.

Please notice that the laptops provide a German keyboard. The '#' is located left of the 'Enter' key, '{', '}', '[', and ']' can be entered by pressing the 'AltGr' key (right of the 'Space' key) together with '7', '8', '9', or '0'. The 'Ctrl' key is named 'Strg'. Please acquaint yoursef with that layout! See here for an accurate image or here for an interactive simulation (which actually differes slightly from the laptop keyboards).

26.09.2024
The practical programming exercises should be done using a Linux operating system. However, most exercises can also be done in a Windows environment. You can find some technical information about this here.

If you want to install the Scalasca performance analysis tool on your Linux computer, you can use this script which contains all the necessary commands. Please be sure to also look at the documentation.

 26.09.2024
You can find old slides in German (from WiSe 15/16!) here: original size, 2-on-1.

29.10.2024
IMPORTANT: In order to pass this module, you must submit practical exercises. You MUST register for the corresponding study achievement in unisono before you submit the first exercise (for Exam Regulations 2012: "822120-SL - Parallelverarbeitung", see this screen dump; for Exam Regulations 2021: "4INFMA024-S - Studienleistung Parallelverarbeitung", see this screen dump). You must do this in this semester even if you want to take the exam in a later semester!
In order to pass the study achievement, you must get at least 12 of the maximum possible 16 points.

26.09.2024
Start of the lecture: Tuesday, 08.10.2024 (this is the assigned lab hor, but we will do the lecture!)

Course Materials

Exercises

Solutions for compulsory exercises must be submitted via the moodle course.


No. Date of issue Deadline Max. PointsDiscussionExercise sheet/codePartial Solution

1 28.10. 05.11., 10:00 105.11.Exercise sheet, Code

2 04.11. 12.11., 10:00 112.11.Exercise sheet, Code

3 11.11. 26.11., 10:00 226.11.Exercise sheet, Code

4 18.11. 03.12., 10:00 203.12.Exercise sheet, Code

5 02.12. 17.12., 10:00 317.12.Exercise sheet, Code

6 09.12. 07.01., 10:00 207.01.


7 06.01. 21.01., 10:00 221.01.


8 13.01. 28.01., 10:00 328.01.

General Literature

  • A. Grama, A. Gupta, G. Karypis, V. Kumar: Introduction to Parallel Computing, 2. ed., Pearson Education, 2003.
  • Barry Wilkinson, Michael Allen: Parallel Programming, internat. ed., 2. ed., Pearson Education international, 2005.
  • R. Trobec, B. Slivnik, P. Bulic, B. Robic: Introduction to Parallel Computing. Springer, 2018.
  • Thomas Rauber, Gudula Rünger: Parallele und verteilte Programmierung. Springer, 2000.
  • Theo Ungerer: Parallelrechner und parallele Programmierung, Spektrum, Akad. Verl., 1997.
  • Ian Foster: Designing and Building Parallel Programs, Addison-Wesley, 1995.
  • Seyed Roosta: Parallel Processing and Parallel Algorithms, Springer, 2000.
  • Rainer Oechsle: Parallele Programmierung mit Java Threads, Fachbuchverlag Leipzig, 2001.
  • S. Hoffmann, R.Lienhart: OpenMP, Springer, 2008.
  • W. Gropp, E. Lusk, A. Skjellum: Using MPI, MIT Press, 1994.
  • Michael Wolfe: Optimizing Supercompilers for Supercomputers, MIT Press, 1989.

Further Reading and Links

 
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