CISC 879 Latest Info
CISC 879 Parallel Computation, Spring, 2003
Info links and log of activity (in reverse chronological order)
Some useful links:
Syllabus
The Ian Foster online.
table of contents.
The Pacheco texbook web page.
The MPI Reference Manual.
(old draft) MPI Manual including dated local info.
Lecture topics assignments.
Homework exercises list
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associated reading and homework assignments.
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Last updated May 15 .
Thu May 22, 2:00-4:00pm, in Smith 102a, project presentations
Thu May 15, 7:00pm
- parallel convex hull algorithms
- parallel sorting
- summary remarks
Thu May 8, 7:00pm
- Zhendong Wan - Lin Alg problems in bounded fan-in circuit model
- Saunders - more on isoefficiency
- Saunders - convex hull algorithms
Thu May 1, 7:00pm
- Georgios Oikonomou - Bulk-Synchronous Parallel Computation Model
ppt slides
- Gaurav Arora - Dynamics of Nitrogen in Carbon Nanotubes.
- Saunders - intro to isoefficiency concept
Thu Apr 24, 7:00pm
- Xueyong Zhi - Debugging and performance tools
ppt slides
- Saunders - Some background on factoring large integers
- Joseph Stelmach - quantum computing
ppt slides
Thu Apr 17, 7:00pm
- Ahmet Duran - parallel random number generation
ppt slides
- Yen-Chi Lin - historic machines
ppt slides
- Saunders - Amdahl's law and other remarks about performance prediction
Thu Apr 10, 7:00pm
- Chun Wu - Parallel computing applied to protein folding
- Saunders - project topic ideas
- Saunders - Parallel FFT
Thu Mar 27, 7:00pm
- Preethi Natarajan - Condor
ppt slides
- Tae Kim - Linda
ppt slides
- Saunders - Tuplespace implementation issues
Thu Mar 20, 7:00pm No class.
Thu Mar 13, 7:00pm
From now on see homework exercise list for assignments.
No more duplicate links on this pg next to the lecture notice.
- Xiaojin Niu - Compositional C++
ppt slides
- Hari Palakurthi - OpenMP
pdf slides
- Saunders - irregular computations -
Reading: Foster chapter 2. Esp section 2.5
Thu Mar 06, 7:00pm in 308 Gore Hall
Thu Feb 27, 7:00pm in 308 Gore Hall
- Saunders- Fox alg with and without MPI Collective communications
Homework exercise: hw3.html.
Reading: fox.c.
- Tamal Basu - MPI Topologies
Homework exercise: topo.txt.
- Ibrahim Saruhan - High Performance Fortran.
Homework exercise: hpf.txt.
Reading: hpf.ppt, handout exerpt of Koelbel et al.
Thu Feb 20, 7:00pm in Smith 220.
- Saunders - MPI comments, barrier, timing - Read MPI manual material.
Homework exercise: read and use ping-pong.c
- Danalis - Posix threads, unix processes, sockets.
example programs.
Homework exercise and reading references: hw4.html
- Saunders - Matrix Multiplication. Read Foster Ch 4.6, Ch 8.3.
Thu Feb 13, 8:00am
- AT2 arguments. (Reference: Ullman, Ch 2)
- MPI basics. Reading: Foster section 8.2
- Assignment
- Some student lecture topics
Tue Feb 11: Hello, grid circuit model.
Reading: Foster chapter 1.
saunders@cis.udel.edu