ME489 SPECIAL TOPICS IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING: APPLIED SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMING

Course Code:5690489
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week):3 (3.00 - 0.00)
ECTS Credit:5.0
Department:Mechanical Engineering
Language of Instruction:English
Level of Study:Undergraduate
Course Coordinator:Assoc.Prof.Dr. ALİ KARAKUŞ
Offered Semester:Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Objectives


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.


Course Learning Outcomes