CISC 372 Parallel Programming Tentative Schedule Fall 2006 Warning: This will be updated continuously as the course progresses!!

Topic	Date	Readings	Projects	Assignments Due and Quizzes
Introductions,  Overview, Syllabus	8/29	Syllabus
Thinking in Parallel: Different Models	8/31	Chapter 1	Individual Lab 1 OUT
	9/5			Quiz
SPMD Programming Live Simulation	9/7	Chapter 1	Individual Lab 1 IN
Simple Message Passing And its implementation	9/12	Chapter 4	Individual Lab 2 OUT	Quiz
	9/14
First Parallelization Study: Trapezoidal Rule	9/19			Quiz
Mystery Programs with simple message passing	9/21	Chapter 4	Individual Lab 2 IN
Overview of Collective Communications Introduction to Stencil Computations	9/26	Appendix A	Lab 3 OUT Homework on collective communication OUT	Quiz
Presentations: Collective Communications	9/28		Tues Homework IN
Presentations: Collective Communication	10/3			Quiz
Data Decomposition and Agglomeration Process	10/5	Sections 3.1-3.3
Code Review	10/10		Lab 3 IN	NO QUIZ
Dynamic Load Balancing	10/12	Chapter 9	Group Lab 4 OUT
Review Game with Prizes	10/17			NO QUIZ
MIDTERM EXAM	10/19	MIDTERM	MIDTERM	MIDTERM
Overlapping Communication	10/24	Chapter 9	Group Lab 4 IN	Quiz
Overlapping Communication	10/26	Antony's Slides
Communicators	10/31	Section 8.6		Quiz
Communicators	11/2	Section 8.6	(11/3) Project Deliverable 1
Election Day - No Class	11/7
Derived Data Types	11/9	Handout		Quiz
Parallel Architectures	11/14	Chapter 2
Performance Evaluation	11/16	Chapter 7	(11/16) Project Deliverable 2 - Codes IN
Project Presentations Set 1	11/21	Lynch/Grieder Madron/Remington/Cabrero Barbario		NO QUIZ
Thanksgiving - No Class	11/23
Project Presentations Set 2	11/28	Wiker/Arbaugh/Carboni/Meecham Barugel/Palmeri/Worrall Getz/Delano Lister/Grafinger/Novikova/Mahoney		NO QUIZ
Project Presentations Set 3	11/30	TLynch/Toy Warner/Keller/Zubriski Ford/Conley/Schmidt/Kirby/Mathus Evers/Neal
Review Game	12/5	Chance/Gorak	Project Deliverable 4 - Report IN
EXAM 2	Finals Week

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