Educational guide
IDENTIFYING DATA							2023_24
Subject	GRID-COMPUTING AND SUPERCOMPUTING					Code	00709041
Study programme	0709 - GRADO EN INGENIERÍA INFORMÁTICA
Descriptors	Credit.	Type	Year	Period
	6	Optional	Fourth	Second
Language	Castellano
Prerequisites
Department	ING.MECANICA,INFORMAT.AEROESP.
Coordinador	CRESPO MARTINEZ , IGNACIO SAMUEL				E-mail	icrem@unileon.es lsang@unileon.es vriec@unileon.es
Lecturers	SÁNCHEZ GONZÁLEZ , LIDIA CRESPO MARTINEZ , IGNACIO SAMUEL RIEGO DEL CASTILLO , VIRGINIA
Web	http://agora.unileon.es
General description	This subject comprises basic concepts about parallel applications in order to increase their performance. Topics cover parallel programming techniques and simple exercises. Moreover, some real applications are showed to realize how parallelism achieves a reduction of the execution time or the memory requirements.
Tribunales de Revisión	Tribunal titular Cargo Departamento Profesor Presidente ING.MECANICA,INFORMAT.AEROESP. MATELLAN OLIVERA , VICENTE Secretario ING.MECANICA,INFORMAT.AEROESP. PANIZO ALONSO , LUIS Vocal CONDE GONZALEZ , MIGUEL ANGEL Tribunal suplente Cargo Departamento Profesor Presidente ING.MECANICA,INFORMAT.AEROESP. FERNANDEZ LLAMAS , CAMINO Secretario MATEMATICAS GARCIA SIERRA , JUAN FELIPE Vocal ING.MECANICA,INFORMAT.AEROESP. RODRIGUEZ LERA , FRANCISCO JAVIER

Competencias

Code
A18128
B5618
B5619
B5624
C2	CMECES2 That students know how to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and possess the skills that are usually demonstrated through the development and defense of arguments and the resolution of problems within their area of study.
C3	CMECES3 That students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (normally within their area of study) to make judgments that include reflection on relevant issues of a social, scientific or ethical nature.

Learning aims

	Competences
Students know to identify and describe the main models of parallel architectures.	A18128	B5618 B5619 B5624	C2 C3

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
Block I: GRID COMPUTING. FUNDAMENTALS AND TECHNOLOGIES	Unit 1: INTRODUCTION. Parallel computer description. Parallel architectures.
Block II: SUPERCOMPUTERS. FUNDAMENTALS AND TECHNOLOGIES	Unit 1: MODELADO DE LOS COMPUTADORES PARALELOS. Parallel computer organization. Classification. Top500. Unit 2. SUPERCOMPUTERS. CALÉNDULA AND SCAYLE Use of calendula supercomputer SCAYLE.
Block III: APPLICATIONS OF GRID COMPUTING AND SUPERCOMPUTERS	Unit 1. PARALLEL APPLICATIONS Problems to run on parallel. Practical examples
Block IV: PARALLEL PROGRAMMING	Unit 1: OpenMP Directives. Sections. Loops. Unit 2: MPI Blocking functions. Collective functions. Non blocking functions. Derivative datatypes Unit 3: Other languages Parallel programming in other languages

Planning

Methodologies  ::  Tests
	Class hours	Hours outside the classroom	Total hours
Practicals using information and communication technologies (ICTs) in computer rooms	40	40	80
Field work/trips	2	0	2
Lecture	15	5	20
	3	45	48
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies

Methodologies   ::  

	Description
Practicals using information and communication technologies (ICTs) in computer rooms	Programming exercises in the lab
Field work/trips	Visit to Caléndula, a supercomputer
Lecture	Grid computing and supercomputer concepts are explained in lectures.

Personalized attention

Lecture Practicals using information and communication technologies (ICTs) in computer rooms

Description Students can solve doubts by email or asking the lecturer

Assessment

	Description	Qualification
Practicals using information and communication technologies (ICTs) in computer rooms	Assessment will based on performing different task during the subject that will take place after homogeneous units. All learning aims will also be granted. At the end of the subject, an exam about the subject will be carried out.	60%
	Assessment will based on performing different task during the subject that will take place after homogeneous units. All learning aims will also be granted. At the end of the subject, an exam about the subject will be carried out.	40%
Other comments and second call

Sources of information

Access to Recommended Bibliography in the Catalog ULE

Basic	Lidia Sánchez González, Apuntes de la asignatura, , F. Almeida, D. Gimenez, Jose Miguel Mantas, A.M. Vidal, Introducción a la programación paralela, Paraninfo Cengage Learning, 2008 Kumar, V., Grama, A., Gupta, A., Karypis G. Benjamin, Introduction to Parallel Computing, Cummings Publishing Company, 2003 https://www.mpi-forum.org/mpi-40/, MPI 4.0, , http://www.open-mpi.org, Página Oficial de Open MPI, , Michael J. Quinn, Parallel Programming in C with MPI and OpenMP, McGraw-Hill, 2003 Lidia Sánchez González, Transparencias de la asignatura, ,
Complementary

Recommendations

Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before

COMPUTER ORGANIZATION / 00709008 OPERATING SYSTEMS / 00709013 OPERATING SYSTEMS EXTENSION / 00709017 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE / 00709020