Scientific Programming II: High Performance Computing

Academic year 2025/2026
Lecturer Julien Roland Michel Bloino

Examination procedure

<p>programming project and oral exam.</p>

Prerequisites

The course can be followed independently of "Scientific Programming I" and does not require any previous knowledge in programming.


Course intended for PhD students, available to master-degree students.

Syllabus

The course will address the following aspects:

  • Introduction to computer architectures, hardware limitations, and programming languages
  • Basic concepts of the language
  • Advanced concepts of the language in terms of performance
  • Object oriented programming in Fortran
  • Parallel programming
  • Code optimization and interfacing


Key concepts of the language will be illustrated through the progressive development of a fully functional program

during the course.

The reference version of the language is Fortran 2008


The course is composed of a didactic part of 36 hours (2-3 lessons of 2 hours each per week) and a practical part of

12 hours (3 sessions of 4 hours, the first one on basic concepts, the second on procedural programming, including functions, modules and libraries, and the last one on object-oriented programming and interfacing with other languages).