Universität Wien

270078 VO+UE High performance Computing in Chemistry (2016S)

2.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 27 - Chemie
Continuous assessment of course work

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 15 participants
Language: German, English

Lecturers

Classes

Friday 15:00-16:30 Währinger Str. 17, 2nd floor, room 203.


Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

1. Overview of modern Computer Systems and their programming models
- Clusters, SMP machines, GPU accelerators
- Vectorisation and Parallelization
- OpenMP and MPI Programming
2. Finite Precision Arithmetics
- IEEE Floating Point Arithmetic
- Roundoff Errors in Scientific Computing
3. Overview of Numerical Methods
- Systems of Linear Equations
- Eigenvalue Problems
- Fast Fourier Transformations
4. Numerical Libraries and Tools
- BLAS, LAPACK and it's commercial implementations
- Parallel Libraries: Scalapack, Plasma, Magma
- Libraries for GPU Computing (CUDA based libraries)

Assessment and permitted materials

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Understanding numerical methods, which can be found in contemporary program packages for quantum chemistry and reaction dynamics, with particular emphasis on modern computer architectures (cluster etc.) Knowledge of modern computer systems. Knowledge of numerical libraries, their usage and their limitations.

Examination topics

Reading list


Association in the course directory

TC-2, EF-1, EF-2, EF-3, SHELL-Ergänzungsfach-Chemie, SHELL-Schwerpunkt-Chemie.

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