Introduction to High Performance Computing

The syllabus and some lecture notes.
The ULM Manual.
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	Working with the UNIX Terminal: Working with the secure shell (ssh) Using git to obtain the ULM simulator Compiling the ULM simulator Using VIM to edit files Run a simple program on the ULM
Session 2	Using the ULM assembler
Session 3	Simple functions (so called leaf functions) Slides 03
Session 4	Linker Writing a Makefile Slides 04
Session 5	Quiz 01 on control structures: If-then-else statements While-loops For-loops Slides 05
Session 6	Stack Recursive function calls The real thing: Writing code for the Intel64 architecture. Using a C compiler as portable assembler. Writing functions in assembly language. Slides 06
Session 7	C = Portable Assembler Slides 07
Session 8	The gcc tool chain: CPP (C preprocessor) Compiler (tokenizer, parser, opimizer and code generator) Linker And a flexible Makefile skeleton for our needs. Slides 08
Session 9	BLAS: Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines LU factorization with BLAS Level 1 and 2 C11: Pointers, arrays, memory allocation Matrices and vectors for numerical linear algebra Coding style for ulmBLAS C Cookbook Slides 09, Notes 09
Session 10	Some simple cache optimizations.
Session 11	Simple GEMM micro kernel with AVX Slides 11
Session 12	Improved cache optimization Using micro kernels from BLIS
Session 13	Triangular solver for matrix equations Blocked LU factorization Solving a linear matrix equation