Ole Møller Nielsen

APAC Summerschool in Advanced Computing 2005

Mathematical Sciences Institute, ANU
18 January 2005 Link

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This is a one day workshop on Load balancing and parallel performance given as part of the APAC summerschool in advanced computing held at the ANU Mathematical Sciences Institute January 2005.

Overview: PDF HTML

Lectures

Lecture 1	Python, the Mandelbrot set and sequential performance	Exercises 1,2,3
Lecture 2	Parallel Python, load balancing, parallel performance	Exercises 4,5
Lecture 3	Dynamic load balancing	Exercise 6

Exercises

1: Introduction to the Python Programming Language	PDF	HTML
2: Computing the Mandelbrot Set	PDF	HTML	prerequisites2
3: Achieving Sequential Performance	PDF	HTML
4: Parallelisation of the Mandelbrot Program	PDF	HTML	prerequisites4	pypar
5: Better Balancing of the Mandelbrot Computation	PDF	HTML
6: Dynamic Load Balancing of the Mandelbrot Computation	PDF	HTML

Source files for course materials (LaTeX)

Lectures (using the LaTeX package prosper): lectures.tgz
Exercises: exercises.tgz