Difference between revisions of "Domain Specific Parallel Programming"

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** discuss and relate the high-level domain-specific programming techniques with respect to low-level hand-written program development  
 
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== Primary Contents ==
  
 
The course is divided into a lecture part, a programming exercises part including a small project, and a seminar series based on selected course literature.
 
The course is divided into a lecture part, a programming exercises part including a small project, and a seminar series based on selected course literature.
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The laboratory part provides hands-on experience of embedded parallel computing using CAL dataflow language and compiling the programs onto an emerging low-power manycore processor as well as using its proprietary low-level programming tools.
 
The laboratory part provides hands-on experience of embedded parallel computing using CAL dataflow language and compiling the programs onto an emerging low-power manycore processor as well as using its proprietary low-level programming tools.
 
In the seminar part of the course, course participants make detailed studies of the literature related to models of computation and parallel programming methodologies for high-performance embedded computing and present their findings in the form of seminar. The university’s research projects are included in these special studies.
 
In the seminar part of the course, course participants make detailed studies of the literature related to models of computation and parallel programming methodologies for high-performance embedded computing and present their findings in the form of seminar. The university’s research projects are included in these special studies.
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== Slides and Study Material ==

Revision as of 15:20, 2 April 2015

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Short description: The course is intended to give general insights into current research and development efforts being undertaken to meet the future needs of energy-efficient embedded systems and high-performance computing. In particular the course aims at providing hands-on experience of applying parallelism of various types that exists in all modern computer architectures by using domain-specific programming techniques.
Course Level: Advanced
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Contact

Lecturer

Zain Ul-Abdin, Tomas Nordström

  • Office: E 307
  • Telephone 035 16 7309
  • Email: [1]


Learning Objectives

  • Knowledge and understanding
    • describe and explain the most important parallel architecture models, as well as parallel programming models, and discuss their respective pros, cons, and application opportunities
  • Skills and abilities
    • program parallel computer systems intended for embedded applications
    • describe, evaluate, and discuss how the choice of programming model and method influences, e.g., execution time and required resources
    • read and understand scientific articles in the area, to review and discuss them and to make summaries and presentations
  • Judgement and approach
    • discuss and relate the merits of various architectures supporting data-level parallelism
    • discuss and relate the high-level domain-specific programming techniques with respect to low-level hand-written program development

Primary Contents

The course is divided into a lecture part, a programming exercises part including a small project, and a seminar series based on selected course literature. The lecture part includes tutorials about the state-of-the-art manycore architectures, CAL language, and the Epiphany manycore architecture (Parallella Platform) that are then used in the practical part of the course. The laboratory part provides hands-on experience of embedded parallel computing using CAL dataflow language and compiling the programs onto an emerging low-power manycore processor as well as using its proprietary low-level programming tools. In the seminar part of the course, course participants make detailed studies of the literature related to models of computation and parallel programming methodologies for high-performance embedded computing and present their findings in the form of seminar. The university’s research projects are included in these special studies.

Slides and Study Material