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Unit 2: OpenMP programming for shared memory systems
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ITPP Syllabus
Unit 1: Introduction to Parallel Computing
- Trends in microprocessor architectures
- Memory system performance
- Dichotomy of parallel computing platforms
- Physical organization of parallel platforms
- Communication costs in parallel machines
- SIMD versus MIMD architectures
- Shared versus distributed memory
- PRAM shared-memory model
- Distributed-memory model
Unit 2: OpenMP programming for shared memory systems
- Thread Basics
- Controlling Thread and Synchronization Attributes
- Multi-thread and multi-tasking
- Context Switching
- Basic OpenMP thread functions
- Shared Memory Consistency Models and the Sequential Consistency Model
- Race Conditions
- Scoping variables
- work-sharing constructs
- critical sections
- atomic operations
- Introduction to Locks
- OpenMP tasks
- Introduction to tasks
- Task queues and task execution
- Accessing variables in tasks
- Completion of tasks and scoping variables in tasks
- Recursive task spawning and pitfalls
Unit 3: MPI programming for distributed memory systems
- Message Passing Interface (MPI) basic communication routines
- Introduction to Message Passing Interface (MPI) and basic calls
- MPI calls to send and receive data
- MPI call for broadcasting data
- MPI Non-blocking calls
- MPI Collectives
- MPI Collectives and MPI broadcast
- MPI Gathering and scattering collectives
- MPI reduction and Alltoall collectives
- MPI collectives design
- Types of interconnects
- Characterization of interconnects
- Linear arrays
- 2D mesh and torus
- Introduction to Cliques