Parallel Algorithms and Systems (MAE840)

Undergraduate Courses Outlines - Department of Mathematics

General

School	School of Science
Academic Unit	Department of Mathematics
Level of Studies	Undergraduate
Course Code	MAE840
Semester	8
Course Title	Parallel Algorithms and Systems
Independent Teaching Activities	Lectures-Laboratory (Weekly Teaching Hours: 3, Credits: 6)
Course Type	Special Background
Prerequisite Courses	Introduction to programming, Introduction to Computers, Database Systems and Web applications development
Language of Instruction and Examinations	Greek
Is the Course Offered to Erasmus Students	Yes(in English)
Course Website (URL)	See eCourse, the Learning Management System maintained by the University of Ioannina.

Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes	Students knowledge acquisition of: Parallel algorithmic methods, multitasking programming, thread programming, resources contention/congestion and contention/congestion avoidance mechanisms Understanding of the basic functional parts of a parallel and a distributed system. Understanding of the basic concepts and techniques / programming, communication, and transparency techniques used in both parallel and distributed systems. Programming parallel tasks using parallel programming libraries such as OpenMP and distributed programming tools such as MPI. Parallel algorithms, Parallel architectures, Parallel algorithm development, Parallel Selection, Parallel Merge, Parallel Classification, Parallel Search, Parallel Algorithms of Computational Geometry. Parallel iterative methods for solving Linear problems. Parallel and Distributed Systems and Architectures. Performance of Parallel and Distributed Systems and Applications. Threading / multitasking and programming of parallel and distributed algorithms using OpenMP and MPI.
General Competences	Data search, analysis and synthesis using Information Technologies Decision making Project design and implementation Working independently

Syllabus

Historical review of parallel and distributed processing.
Von Neumann model. Flynn categorization. Tubing. Multiprocessors, Multi-computers.
Distributed and Shared Memory Systems. Memory architectures for single and non-unified access time.
Performance calculations and metrics. System scalability, partitioning and optimization. Parallel computer interface networks.
Law of Grosch, of Amdahl, of Gustafson Barsis. Design of parallel applications.
Program parallelization - MPI. Synchronization. Dependency charts, shared resources and racing conditions. Scheduling. Shared Memory Affinity. MESI. Parallel Processing using parallella FPGA cores.
Models and process communication mechanisms. Vector Processing. Arrays and computational grid. Examples of application parallelization. Synchronization issues

Course laboratory part

Introductory programming concepts using gcc. Pointers, classes, dynamic structures. Creating processes in Linux, separating user-space and kernel-space concepts, parenting processes and parent-child relationships, Process Management.
Containers, Templates, STL (C++ standard templates library).
Introduction to Boost and advanced C ++ aspects.
Introduction to C ++ Armadilo
Process intercommunication. Static memory areas, pipelines, shared memory areas, process signalling.
Threads creation and thread management. shared thread memory areas, critical areas, producer-consumer model, threads signalling.
Thread Management and Synchronization, critical areas protection using mutex locks and semaphores. Presentation of conditional execution threads and sync barriers.
Introduction to MPI, MPI settings, MPI key features presentation, preliminary MPI programs.
Presentation of basic modern methods of sending and receiving messages in MPI. Presentation of asynchronous upload methods. Examples.
Using Gather-Scatter-Reduce-Broadcast Collective Methods and Examples.
Basic structures for organizing distributed programs. Examples of distributed calculations. Advanced data types using MPI. Creating # Complex Data Structures with MPI And Sending Data Structure Messages.
Parallel programming OpenMP and Epiphany-SDK, BSP.

Teaching and Learning Methods - Evaluation

Delivery

Classroom

Use of Information and Communications Technology

Use of Micro-computers Laboratory

Teaching Methods

Activity	Semester Workload
Lectures	39
Working Independently	78
Exercises-Homework	33
Course total	150

Student Performance Evaluation

Using new ICT and metrics of the asynchronous e-learning platform (30%)
Examination of laboratory exercises (20%)
Semester written examination (50%)

Attached Bibliography

See the official Eudoxus site or the local repository of Eudoxus lists per academic year, which is maintained by the Department of Mathematics. Books and other resources, not provided by Eudoxus:

Parallel Scientific Computing in C++ and MPI: A Seamless Approach to Parallel Algorithms and their Implementation, G.M. Karniadakis and R.M. Kirby, 2003, Cambridge University press, ISBN: 0-521-81754-4
Using OpenMP, Portable Shared Memory Parallel Programming., B. Chapman, G. Jost and R. Pas, 2008, MIT press, ISBN: 9780262533027
Learning Boost C++ libraries, A. Mukherjee, 2015, PACKT, ISBN:978-1-78355-121-7
Boost C++ Application Development Cookbook - Second Edition: Recipes to simplify your application development, 2 Edition, A. Polukhin, 2017, PACKT, ISBN:978-1-78728-224-7
C++17 STL Cookbook, J. Galowicz, PACKT,978-1-78712-049-5, 2017