CIS 879: Issues in High Performance Computing
Spring 1997

Topics and Initial Schedule

1. Benchmarks
   Overview of suite, papers on evaluation of performance (what the studies learned about the benchmark characteristics.
   • Feb 26: SPEC95 (Gary); HINT (John)
   • Mar 5: NAS (Dixie); SPEC 92 (Lori)
   • Mar 19: Perfect and Livermore loops (Lori);
   • Mar 19: suites of irregular applications (Gagan)
   • Mar 19: teraflops machine (Tom)

2. SUIF Infrastructure
   • Mar 12: How to dig in and use it! (Cheer-Sun Yang)

3. New Parallel Systems
   • Mar 26: SGI Origin 2000; technical overview of the Origin family (Dixie)
   • Mar 26: new instruction level parallel architectures (Gary)

4. Compiler Development Tools
   • Apr 9: vpo (Tom)
   • Apr 23: BURRS (Gary)

5. Active Messages and Fast Messages
   • April 9: article on active and fast messages (Wagner)

6. Multithreading
   • April 16: (John)
   • April 16: Gao's papers (Lori)

7. Automatic Domain Decomposition
   • April 30: TOP DOM/DEC and overview (Dixie)
   • April 30: Chaos runtime library (Gagan)

8. Interactions between Optimizations
   • May 7: (Tom)
   • May 7: (Lori)

9. Programming Tools
   • May 14: Paradyn, Wisconsin (Wagner)

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