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w08-tsk1-templates

Templates

Objective

In this task, we aim to template the class BaseMatrix and the two inherited classes Matrix and NodalArray.

To accomplish this task, you need to modify the BaseMatrix and the two inherited classes such that they are templated for the type of data stored in the matrix. One should be able to use Matrix and NodalArray for double and for unsigned int (you can use UInt).

Implementation

  1. load appropriate modules by performing the following command in your terminal: source tehpc/tools/tehpc_load_modules.sh.

  2. By modifying the relevant CMakeLists.txt, make sure that the UInt versions of the BaseMatrix, Matrix, and NodalArray are not compiled anymore. You will modify the double version of those classes to create the templated generalized code.

  3. Add tehpc_add_test(matrix_test) in the tehpc/tests/CMakeLists.txt to include the test in the compilation, and make sure that the old matrix tests are not compiled anymore.

  4. Compile your code, use the following steps:

    a. go into tehpc/build/

    b. type: cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Debug -DTEHPC_TESTS:STRING=ON .. or use ccmake .. to configure (you only have to do this the very first time).

    c. type: make (do this whenever you want to recompile).

  5. Change BaseMatrix to be templated by stored data type for double and UInt. Correct all compilation errors.

  6. If the code compiles without errors, run the test matrix_test and all other compiled tests:

    a. go into tehpc/build/tests/

    b. type: ./matrix_test

  7. Make sure that ALL (compiled) tests run without error and return success. Correct all errors.

  8. run valgrind to check for memory leakage: valgrind --leak-check=full ./matrix_test. Correct memory leakage if you encounter this problem.

  9. Make sure that your code is well structured and commented.