Introduction to High Performance Computing

The syllabus and some lecture notes.
You should be familiar with some of the most basics of UNIX. In particular on working with the terminal. Here some links to a simple tutorial:
- Tutorial 1: Listing files and directories. Making and changing directories.
- Tutorial 2: Copying, moving and deleting files. Displaying the contents of a file on the screen
- Tutorial 3: Redirecting output and using pipelines.
If you are not familiar with VIM then use this course as a chance to change this. Learn VIM
For the computer lab sessions we provide some minimalistic supplementary material.

Computer Lab Sessions:

Session 1	Von Neumann Architecture (VNA)
Session 2	VNA: Integer Arithmetic
Session 3	VNA: Conditional Jumps
Session 4	VNA: Control Structures
Session 5	Holiday
Session 6	Introduction to C (C11)
Session 7	C11: Function Calls
Session 8	C11: Arrays, Memory Allocation
Session 9	VNA/C11: More on function calls C11: Representing vectors and matrices
Session 10	Some BLAS Level 1 functions Concept of a benchmark
Session 11	CPU Caches: Optimized matrix vector product
Session 12	Application: Unblocked LU factorization
Session 13	Triangular Matrix Vector Solvers (TRSV) Applying a pivot vector (LASWP) Solving a system of linear equations
Session 14	Unblocked LU factorization based on GEMV and TRSV
Session 15	General Matrix-Matrix Product (GEMM): Simple Cache Optimization.
Session 16	GEMM: Advanced Cache Optimization (Part I)
Session 17	GEMM: Advanced Cache Optimization (Part II)
Session 18	GEMM: Optimized Micro Kernel (Part I)
Session 19	GEMM: Optimized Micro Kernel (Part II)
Session 20	Building libraries (ulmBLAS)
Session 21	ulmBLAS: Providing a Fortran interface
Session 23	Final Benchmarks and Outlook