• An overview of Parallel Computing: SIMD, MIMD machines and clusters (Dr. Sandeep Joshi)

11:00 Hrs  - 11:15 Hrs : Tea Break at C-DAC Roof-Top Pavilion

• Implicit / Explicit Parallelism: An overview (Dr. VCV. Rao)

13:00 Hrs  - 14:00 Hrs : Lunch Break at C-DAC Roof-Top Pavilion
16:30 Hrs - 16:45 Hrs: Tea Break at C-DAC

• Hands-on Session (Day1):
  Performance of selective FORTRAN/C programs on Uni-processor of PARAM 10000 without compiler optimization features; With compiler optimization features; Using code restructuring techniques such as loop un-rolling, loop fission and loop fusion, loop distribution, loop interchange and other loop optimization techniques to ease the memory access pattern; Performance of serial programs for matrix computations using math libraries BLAS I, BLAS II, BLAS III; Programming using OpenMP on PARAM 10000 (Ms. Sudha, Mrs. Manisha, Mr. Kalyana Krishna, Mr. Sridhar)

• Single processor optimization techniques
• Code restructuring techniques such as loop optimizations techniques (Loop collapsing; Loop alignment, Loop fission, Loop distribution, Loop unrolling, Loop interchange, Negatives of loop unrolling, and Loop fusion)
• Uni-Processor Benchmarks  (Mr. Kalyana Krishna)

10:00 - 11:00

• Models of Parallel Computers, An Overview of PARAM 10000/ PARAM Padma (Dr. Sandeep Joshi)

11:00 Hrs  - 11:15 Hrs : Tea Break at C-DAC Roof-Top Pavilion

• Explicit Parallelism: Shared Memory Programming - Pthreads and OpenMP (Mr. Kalyana Krishna & Mrs. Manisha)

• Types of Performance requirements, Basic Performance metrics; Workload & Speed Metrics; Performance of Parallel Computers - Computational Characteristics; Parallelism and interaction overheads; Overhead Quantification and measurement methods; Performance of parallel programs; Performance metrics, Scalability &Speed-up Analysis  (Dr. VCV. Rao)

13:00 Hrs  - 14:00 Hrs : Lunch Break at C-DAC Roof-Top Pavilion
16:30 Hrs  - 16:45 Hrs : Tea Break at C-DAC 

• Hands-on Session (Day 2):
  Performance of serial programs for matrix computations using math libraries BLAS I, BLAS II, BLAS III; Performance of F90 programs using Sun-Performance libraries and Compliers; Parallel MPI Fortran 77/C/F90 programs on vector-vector, matrix-vector and matrix-matrix multiplication algorithms; Solution of matrix system of linear equations by Direct/Iterative Methods; Parallel Programs for Partial differential equations using proper MPI library calls and their impact on performance; Demonstration of benchmarks on one node of PARAM 10000

• Performance Visualization tools for Parallel Programs and case studies (Ms. Sudha)

• Explicit Parallelism: Message Passing Interface - Advance features of MPI (Mr. Subba)

11:00 Hrs  - 11:15 Hrs : Tea Break at C-DAC Roof-Top Pavilion

• Explicit Parallelism: Shared Memory Programming - Advanced features of OpenMP; Mixed mode programming MPI - OpenMP (Mr. Kalyana Krishna)

• Application and System Benchmarks on PARAM 10000/ PARAM Padma (Mr. Subba / Mrs. Manisha)

13:00 Hrs  - 14:00 Hrs : Lunch Break at C-DAC Roof-Top Pavilion
16:30 Hrs - 16:45 Hrs: Tea Break at C-DAC

• Principles of Algorithms design - Decomposition techniques; Static and Dynamic load balancing features; Overheads in algorithm design and performance issues (Dr. VCV Rao)

• Hands-on Session (Day 3):
  Performance of programs using Pthreads, OpenMP and MPI on vector-vector, matrix-vector, matrix-matrix multiplication and Sparse matrix vector multiplication algorithms; Solution of matrix system of linear equations by Direct/Iterative Methods; Performance of parallel programs using combination of Pthreads, MPI; OpenMP; and MPI - OpenMP models. (Mr. Subba, Mr. Kalyana Krishna, Mr. Sridhar, Ms. Sudha, Mrs. Manisha)