Tentative Outline of the Class
Jan 14: Basics of performance evaluation of parallel systems (Strohmaier)
Jan 21: Benchmarking (Strohmaier)
Jan 28: Overview of High-Performance Computing (Dongarra)
Feb 4: PVM/MPI/HPF (Dongarra)
Feb 11: Memory Hierarchy (Dongarra)
Feb 18: Blocked linear algebra (Dongarra)
Feb 25: Performance Modeling of parallel applications (Strohmaier)
Mar 4: Scalability Analysis (Strohmaier)