Parallelisation of Physics Calculations on GPUs with CUDA
Module PH1351
Module version of SS 2011
There are historic module descriptions of this module. A module description is valid until replaced by a newer one.
Whether the module’s courses are offered during a specific semester is listed in the section Courses, Learning and Teaching Methods and Literature below.
| available module versions | |
|---|---|
| SS 2017 | SS 2011 |
Basic Information
PH1351 is a semester module in German or English language at Bachelor’s level which is offered in summer semester.
This Module is included in the following catalogues within the study programs in physics.
- Catalogue of student seminars for condensed matter physics
- Catalogue of student seminars for nuclear, particle, and astrophysics
- Catalogue of student seminars for Biophysics
- Catalogue of student seminars for Applied and Engineering Physics
If not stated otherwise for export to a non-physics program the student workload is given in the following table.
| Total workload | Contact hours | Credits (ECTS) |
|---|---|---|
| 120 h | 40 h | 4 CP |
Responsible coordinator of the module PH1351 in the version of SS 2011 was Stefan Recksiegel.
Content, Learning Outcome and Preconditions
Content
Seminar talks and programming projects by students on parallelisation methods on GPUs in computational physics
Learning Outcome
After successful participation in the module the student can implement algorithms from computaional physics on highly parallel processors like GPUs. He/she understands how various parallelisation parameters influence the speed of execution.
Preconditions
Algorithms from Computational Physics (e.g. by simultaneous participation in the lecture Computational Physics II), C programming.
Courses, Learning and Teaching Methods and Literature
Courses and Schedule
| Type | SWS | Title | Lecturer(s) | Dates | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS | 2 | Parallelisation of physics calculations on GPUs with CUDA | Recksiegel, S. |
Thu, 16:00–18:00, PH 1161 and singular or moved dates |
documents |
Learning and Teaching Methods
The learning outcomes of this module will be developed through the literature search, the study of literature, the programming, the preparation of the presentation, the discussion with the teacher, the talk itself and answering questions about it.
Media
Presentation materials, complementary literature, Computer with CUDA enabled GPU (available in the CIP pool).
Literature
CUDA programming guide by NVIDIA (more info), part 5 and part 6 of GPU Gems 3.
http://users.ph.tum.de/srecksie/lehre/cuda.html