Blue Waters 2011 Petascale Institute
Day 04 - Errors, Debugging, N-body, Game of Life
Lab Session
- Open lab for finishing up NBody and other MPI codes.
Practical Session
- Blocking/Nonblocking MPI and deadlock!
Afternoon Session
- How to build a cluster -- Introduction to the LittleFe project
- More open lab!!! Ask us questions! Finish up outstanding MPI things, etc.
- Introduction to OpenMP ( .pdf / .ppt )
- Daily Survey
Evening Lab Session
- N-Body problem in OpenMP
- Area in OpenMP
- Resolving any outstanding MPI questions
Materials
Daily Resources
- Deadlock ( .c [1] / c [2] / .f90 [2] )
- MPI Send/Receive Blocked/Unblocked ( .ppt )
- LittleFe ( .pdf )
- Debugging Parallel Code ( .pdf )
- Designing Parallel Code ( .pdf )
- GalaxSee ( .pdf )
- The Game of Life ( .pdf )
- Pseudo Random Numbers ( .xls )
- Numerical Errors ( .xls )
- Data ( .xls )
Supplemental Resources
- Number Representation
- N-Body Problem
- Game of Life and Cellular Automata
- Conway's Game of Life
- Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science [ link ]
- OpenMP
- OpenMP Site [ link ]
- OpenMP Specification [ .pdf ]
- OpenMP-C Summary Cheat Sheet ( .pdf )
- OpenMP 3.0 Summary Specification ( .pdf )
- Software Carpentry ( link )
- The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View From Berkeley ( link )