High Performance Computing detailed Syllabus for Aeronautical Engineering (AERO), 2018 scheme has been taken from the VTUs official website and presented for the VTU students. For Course Code, Subject Names, Teaching Department, Paper Setting Board, Theory Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Duration in Hours, CIE Marks, Total Marks, Credits and other information, visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.
For all the other VTU AERO 7th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme, visit Aeronautical Engineering 7th Sem 2018 Scheme.
For all the (Professional Elective-3) subjects refer to Professional Elective-3 Scheme. The detail syllabus for high performance computing is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Module 1
Computational Science and Engineering Introduction: Computational Science and Engineering Applications; characteristics and requirements, Review of Computational Complexity, Performance: metrics and measurements, Granularity and Partitioning, Locality: temporal/spatial/stream/kernel, Basic methods for parallel programming, Real-world case studies (drawn from multi-scale, multi-discipline applications.
Module 2
High-End Computer Systems: Memory Hierarchies, Multi-core Processors: Homogeneous and Heterogeneous, Shared-memory Symmetric Multiprocessors, Vector Computers, Distributed Memory Computers, Supercomputers and Petascale Systems, Application Accelerators / Reconfigurable Computing, Novel computers: Stream, multithreaded, and purpose-built.
Module 3
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Module 4
Parallel Programming: Revealing concurrency in applications, Task and Functional Parallelism, Task Scheduling, Synchronization Methods, Parallel Primitives (collective operations), SPMD Programming (threads, Open MP, MPI), I/O and File Systems, Parallel Matlabs (Parallel Matlab, Star-P, Matlab MPI), Partitioning Global Address Space (PGAS) languages (UPC, Titanium, Global Arrays).
Module 5
Achieving Performance: Measuring performance, identifying performance bottlenecks, Restructuring applications for deep memory hierarchies, Partitioning applications for heterogeneous resources, Using existing libraries, tools, and frameworks.
Course Outcomes:
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Question paper pattern:
- The question paper will have ten full questions carrying equal marks.
- Each full question will be for 20 marks.
- There will be two full questions (with a maximum of four sub- questions) from each module.
- Each full question will have sub- question covering all the topics under a module.
- The students will have to answer five full questions, selecting one full question from each module.
Text Books:
- An Introduction to Parallel Computing, Design and Analysis of Algorithms Grama, A. Gupta, G. Karypis, V. Kumar Pearson Education India 2nd edition, 2004
- Parallel Scientific Computing in C++ and MPI: A Seamless Approach to Parallel Algorithms and their Implementation G.E. Karniadakis, R.M. Kirby II Cambridge University Press 2003
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