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## 198709 VU HPC implementations A: Parallelisation / 706845 PR Methods in Computational Physics B: Parallelisation - Introduction & Administrative Stuff

Philipp Gschwandtner, Ralf Kissmann

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## Organizational stuff

- Time and Space
	- See [lfu:online](https://lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/lfuonline_lv.details?sem_id_in=23S&lvnr_id_in=198709&sprache_in=en) for exact dates
	- Generally Thursdays 14:30-17:00
- Prerequisites
	- Interest in scientific programming and physics
	- Programming in C or C++

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- Content
	- General concepts of hydrodynamics and finite volume schemes
	- General concepts of optimization
	- General concepts of programming

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## Course Structure

- Interleaved units of lectures and pratical exercises
- Interleaved units of physics and computer science
- No exact plan yet
	- Course material is brand new and being generated as we speak
	- We'll see how it goes and adjust dynamically according to progress and experience...

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## Discord Server

- Discord server for any discussions outside the VU
	- https://discord.gg/Y3JTuUfadj

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## Grading: Proseminar

- Regular assignments, published on OLAT
	- Link to GitHub
	- not necessarily every week
- Teamwork is permitted and encouraged
	- 3 people max. per team
	- <u>Every</u> team member must be able to present and discuss solution
- Solutions must be handed in until Thursday 08:00!
	- Solutions of assignments on the LCC2 cluster <u>must work</u> on LCC2
	- Copying solutions (e.g. off the Internet) is acceptable <u>if cited properly and understood</u>
	- Grade is 50% solutions, 50% presentations/discussion - <u>both must be above 50%!</u>

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## Literature

- LeVeque, Randall J.: <i>Finite volume methods for hyperbolic problems</i>, 2007
- Bartelmann, Matthias: <i>Theoretical astrophysics: an introduction</i>, 2013
  
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## Hints (not only) for this course

- choose a suitable source code editor / IDE and choose it wisely!
- get acquainted with your toolchain debuggers, version control (git), etc.
- use common sense and sanity checks!

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