CS484-uiuc intro parallel prog and projects

Laxmikant Kale, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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CS 484 is a course aimed at teaching parallel programming. Students will be using OpenMP, and MPI and possibly Charm++. We can install charm++ ourselves. For some of the initial assignments requiring single-node submissions, we will be using the Xeon Phi sub- cluster of the campus cluster. There are about 65 students in the course now, expected to drop to below 60. The programming assignments will be short runs. In the first half of the course, they will be single node runs only. In the second half, they will use tens of nodes for MPI assignments and projects.
We expect a few assignments involving MPI as well as MPI and OpenMP between Feb 24th and May 3rd will be run on Blue Waters. These assignments will involve 16-64 nodes. In addition, the graduate students who make up half of the class, will be doing group projects from March end to May 15th. Once I personally ascertain that the code is efficient and scales well to tens of nodes, I would like them to be able to do some short runs on a several hundred nodes to study scalability, resources permitting.