The course focuses on three fields:
- Parallel computer architecture and parallel software. This includes the presentation of processor and memory systems of parallel computers. Furthermore, different types of parallelism (on instruction level, on computational task level and data parallelism) as well as performance models for parallel systems is described.
- Programming of multicore systems with OpenMP. Introduction to basic as well as more advanced concepts of OpenMP.
- Programming of cluster systems with MPI. Presentation of MPI and approaches for the parallelisation of programs.
Hardware and software for different platforms on CSC and PDC will be introduced at the first laboratory session.