20410716 - High performance computing laboratory

Acquire knowledge on the operation of high-performance computing systems and the techniques of use and optimization of codes, algorithms and programs
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Mutuazione: 20410716 Laboratorio di calcolo ad alte prestazioni in Fisica L-30 BUDANO Antonio, Sanfilippo Francesco

Programme

• Computer Architecture:
- Logical and physical organization
- CPU architecture (parallelism, pipeline, superscalar architecture, registers, operations, buffers and internal cache)
- system bus and peripheral bus, main memory, disks
- parallel multicore, multiprocessor and GPU architectures
•     Operating systems:
- general functions
- kernel, processes and memory organization, scheduling algorithms
- file system
• Virtual systems and containers
- Virtual machine architecture
- Conainer architecture
• Communication networks:
- Network architectures, topologies of local and geographic networks
- standard TCP / IP routing and communication protocols
- Networks for HPC computing
• Storage systems:
- physical structuring
- RAID systems
- high performance file system
• HPC systems:
- intensive computing, algorithm parallelism, computer farm and job scheduling systems
- MPI libraries for running parallel programs
- Scheduling systems
- new frontiers of scientific computing and GRID.
- Cloud systems
• Algorithms, codes and programs on HPC architectures
Examples of algorithm development and execution of parallel architectures

Development examples using MPI

Development examples on GPU cards

Core Documentation

- J. F. Kurose, K. W. Ross , Reti di calcolatori e internet. Un approccio top-down
- A. S. Tanenbaum, H. Bos, B. Crispo, C. Palazzi, I moderni sistemi operativi
- A. S. Tanenbaum, T.Austin, Architettura dei calcolatori. Un approccio strutturale


Type of delivery of the course

Theoretical lessons in presence and online, Laboratory in presence

Type of evaluation

Test on the topics covered during the laboratory hours Oral examination

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Mutuazione: 20410716 Laboratorio di calcolo ad alte prestazioni in Fisica L-30 BUDANO Antonio, Sanfilippo Francesco

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