MPI_2008_FSU: MPI Materials for ACS II

From 09 September to 22 September 2008, I will be an instructor for the Advanced Computational Science II (ACS II), given by the Department of Scientific Computing at Florida State University.

Schedule:

Date	Subject
11:00-12:15, Tuesday, 09 September 2008	OpenMP Introduction
11:00-12:15, Thursday, 11 September 2008	OpenMP Conclusion
2:30-5:00, Monday, 15 September 2008	OpenMP Exercises
11:00-12:15, Tuesday, 16 September 2008	MPI Introduction
11:00-12:15, Thursday, 18 September 2008	MPI Conclusion
2:30-5:00, Monday, 22 September 2008	MPI Exercises

MPI information:

• mpi_2008_fsu.pdf PDF instructions for the lecture.
• mpi_2008_fsu.tex LATEX source for the lecture.
• mpi_exercises_2008_fsu.pdf PDF instructions for the exercises.
• mpi_exercises_2008_fsu.tex LATEX source for instructions for the exercises.

Latex input files:

• clockspeeds.png, an image of a graph of the evolution of computer clock speeds.
• cluster.png, a picture of an early "hand-made" cluster, formed by stacking personal computers onto racks;
• europe_weather_1917.png, an image of Lewis Richardson's attempt to predict the weather in 1917.
• fsu_logo.pdf, a logo.
• heat_equation.png, an image of the solution of the heat equation using domain decomposition.
• heat_mpi_c_page1.txt
• heat_mpi_c_page2.txt
• heat_mpi_c_page3.txt
• heat_mpi_c_page4.txt
• heat_mpi_c_page4_sendrecv.txt
• heat_mpi_c_page5.txt
• ike.png, shows a prediction of the path of hurricane Ike.
• matvec_f77_page1.txt
• matvec_f77_page2.txt
• matvec_f77_page3.txt
• mc_mpi_part1.f
• mc_mpi_part2.f
• mc_mpi_part3.f
• p18_zones.png, an image of problem 18, meshed uniformly, and divided into 4 zones.
• p18_nonuniform_zones.png, an image of problem 18, meshed nonuniformly, and divided into 5 zones.

MPI Exercises
22 September 2008

The exercises require access to source codes, which are available here:

1. mpi_stubs, "stub" versions of the MPI libraries that allow you to compile on systems that don't actually support MPI.
2. hello, the MPI version of the "Hello, World!" program.
3. quad, a program which estimates an integral using quadrature.
4. prime, a program which sums the primes between 2 and N.
5. heat, a program to solve the time dependent heat equation. A pair of MPI_Send and MPI_Recv statements are given, but another pair is missing and you must insert them.
6. mc, a Monte Carlo quadrature program for multidimensional integrals. Each process will be generating random numbers. Can you make sure each process generates a different set of random numbers?

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