Plan of Lectures
Monday:
  • 09:00-09:15: Welcome by K-A Lie
  • 09:15-10:45: All participants present themselves:
    • Each participant has 3 minutes
    • Everybody must bring one slide that is to be copied and handed out to all the other participants
  • 15:00-18:30: Introduction to parallel computing by Aslak Tveito
Tuesday:
  • Programming of parallel computers by Xing Cai and Tor Sørevik
    • OpenMP
    • MPI
Wednesday:
  • 09:00-10:30: Introduction to domain decomposition by K-A Lie
  • 15:00-18:30: More about domain decomposition: theory / programming, by Xing Cai
Thursday:
  • 09:00-10:30: Beowulf clustres by Åsmund Ødegård
  • 15:00-18:30: We will build three Linux clustres by Åsmund Ødegård
    The participants will be grouped in three, and each group will build a small cluster with 3x2 processors.
Friday:
  • Challenging problems: simulation of the electrical activity in the heart by Glenn Terje Linnes and Xing Cai
    • Matemathical model
    • Discretisation
    • Parallelisation

All lectures will be in English. Copies of slides and relevant background material will be handed out at Geilo. In addition, some material will be made available electronically after the winter school.

Published October 20, 2010