Course: Seminar on efficient numerical simulation on multi- and manycore processors SS 2020

Weekly outline

General
Lecturer: Prof. G. Wellein (gerhard.wellein@fau.de), Martensstr. 1, Room 01.131. Phone -28136
Location: The seminar will be conducted online for the time being. Please see below for details.
Time: Thursday 16:00-17:30
First seminar: Thursday, April 23, 2020, 4:15 p.m. as a Zoom event

Credits: 5 ECTS credits. This requires two talks and a written seminar report.

Possible topics can be found in the intro talk (see below).
Tutors:
- Christie Louis Alappat (christie.alappat@fau.de), RRZE, Room 1.025-113
- Georg Hager (georg.hager@fau.de), RRZE, Room 1.037-113
- Julian Hammer (julian.hammer@fau.de), RRZE, Room 1.037-113
- Jan Eitzinger (jan.eitzinger@fau.de), RRZE, Room 1.025-113
- Thomas Gruber (thomas.gruber@fau.de), RRZE, Room 1.025-113
- Dominik Ernst (dominik.ernst@fau.de), RRZE, Room 1.036-113
- Ayesha Afzal (ayesha.afzal@fau.de), RRZE, Room 1.032-113
- Announcements Forum
20 April - 26 April
The seminar will be conducted as an online event. Details to follow.
First seminar: Thursday, April 23, 2020, 4:15 p.m. as a Zoom event.
- Please e-mail your name, IdM account and matriculation number to georg.hager@fau.de so we can set up your account for the HPC systems.
- Please register in the Moodle system with your e-mail address and enroll in this course so we can send messages to all students. This will also enable you to participate in online discussions etc.
- Intro slides with possible seminar topics (updated 04/23) File
27 April - 3 May
April 30, 4:15 p.m.: Hands-on cluster & LIKWID intro, part 1
Zoom link: https://fau.zoom.us/j/95648105106
Possible solution for SSH access (including X forwarding) to the RRZE systems: https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/
- MuCoSim_SS20_LIKWID_And_Intro_Part1 File
- Video recording of first hands-on session (IdM login required) URL
4 May - 10 May
May 7: Johannes Wendler: Interface pycachesim with Valgrind (or PIN) (student project talk)
- Video recording of talk by Johannes Wendler URL
11 May - 17 May
May 14: Hands-on cluster & LIKWID intro, part 2
- MuCoSim_SS20_LIKWID_And_Intro_Part2 File
- Video recording of second hands-on session (IdM login required) URL
18 May - 24 May
No seminar this week (public holiday on May 21)
25 May - 31 May
Thursday, May 28: Node-Level Performance Engineering Tutorial - part 1
- Video recording URL
- A question came up after the talk about where to find a reference to the "slower programs scale better" principle. The math about that is in our book. Humorous write-ups of the issue can be found in Georg's blog:
- "Fooling the masses," stunt 1: Speedup rulez! URL
- "Fooling the masses," stunt 2: Slow down code execution URL
1 June - 7 June
Thursday, June 4: Node-Level Performance Engineering Tutorial - part 2
- Video recording URL
8 June - 14 June
No seminar this week (public holiday on June 11)
15 June - 21 June
Thursday, June 18:
Tobias Auerochs: OSACA on the Raspberry Pi 4 (part 1)
Yannick Wallerer: Analysis of the MiniMD proxy app (part 1)
22 June - 28 June
Tuesday, June 23, 2 pm: Ayesha Afzal: Internal HPC seminar on Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector (ITAC).
Thursday, June 25: Node-Level Performance Engineering Tutorial - part 3
- Video recording URL
29 June - 5 July
Thursday, July 2, 4:15 pm: Johannes Wendler: Interface pycachesim with Valgrind (or PIN) (student project final talk)
6 July - 12 July
Thursday, July 9, 4:15 pm: Michael Holzmann: Stencils on NEC Tsubasa (part 1)
Zoom link:
https://fau.zoom.us/j/95648105106?pwd=ODlQZUZGbVZ3U3Y4UXBBc2c5cTB0QT09 (PW: 121176)
This week
13 July - 19 July
20 July - 26 July
27 July - 2 August

Weekly outline

General

20 April - 26 April

27 April - 3 May

4 May - 10 May

11 May - 17 May

18 May - 24 May

25 May - 31 May

1 June - 7 June

8 June - 14 June

15 June - 21 June

22 June - 28 June

29 June - 5 July

6 July - 12 July

13 July - 19 July

20 July - 26 July

27 July - 2 August