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GRAD 511 Project Discussion. Pat Burns February 27, 2012. Expectations. Projects can be individual or grou p Projects will be graded at 35 points (3.5 x hw ) Likely grades on the rest of the homework and the project will determine letter grades Scale up on our Cray
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GRAD 511 Project Discussion Pat Burns February 27, 2012
Expectations • Projects can be individual or group • Projects will be graded at 35 points (3.5 x hw) • Likely grades on the rest of the homework and the project will determine letter grades • Scale up on our Cray • Then, scale up 10x on the OLCF • Can have an industrial mentor
PossibleTopics • Molecular motion • Parallel Random number generation • Monte Carlo particle transport • Monte Carlo integration of a "nasty" function • Discrete event simulation
Possible Topics (cont’d) • Gaussian elimination with pivoting • Conjugate gradient solution of linear algebraic equations SOR for a general, linear system of equations • Newton's method for a non-linear system of equations • Multigrid method for solving a system of PDE's on a grid • Advanced sorting, including alphanumeric data
Possible Topics (cont’d) • Parallel communication - fully exercise the machine • Parallel I/O • Co-array Fortran • PGAS (parallel global addressable system)environment • UPC (Unified Parallel C)
Possible Topics • GP GPU computing at OLCF • Visualization tools development