Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering: Applied Scientific Programming

Course content

Overview of Linux operating systems and program development with C. High-performance computing. Fundamentals of Open Multi-processing (OpenMP): parallelization and scaling. Fundamentals of Message Passing Interface (MPI): Introduction, visualization and timelines, communications, performance, analysis, and scaling. Interacting with Parallel Computing Systems. Graphical Processing Units: Why GPUs? Computing with CUDA, streaming operations, and reductions. Parallel computing applications in mechanical engineering.