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COSC 4397 Parallel Computation - Spring 2006

General issues

Time	Monday and Wednesday 2.30pm - 4.00pm
Location	PGH 344
Begin	January 18
Exams	2 homeworks: 10% each, 20 %overall 1 midterm quiz: 30% final exam: 50 %




Slides and additional material

• Lectures of January 18: Introduction and organizational issues
• Lectures of January 23: Selected topics of computer architecture
• Lectures of January 25: Parallel computer architectures
• Lectures of January 30: Message-Passing Interface (MPI)- I
• Lectures of February 1st: Presentation by Jeffrey Squyres from Indiana University, from 11.00 am to 12am in PGH233
• Lectures of February 6: Message-Passing Interface (MPI)- II
• Lectures of February 8: Basic Concepts
• Lectures of February 13: Finding Concurrency
• Lectures of February 15: Lab class: Introduction to UNIX, Using Open MPI
• Lectures of February 20: Algorithm Structure (I)
• Lectures of February 22: Algorithm Structure (II)
• Lectures of February 27: Supporting Structures (I)
• Lectures of March 1st: Parallel Debugging, Performance Analysis and 1st homework
• Lectures of March 6th: Presentation by Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, from 11.00 am to 12am in PGH233
• Lectures of March 8th: Exercises, Laplace equation continued and handling of non-contiguous messages. Also available are the solutions for these exercises.
• Lectures of March 13: Spring break, no lectures
• Lectures of March 15: Spring break, no lectures
• Lectures of March 20: Group and communicator management
• Lectures of March 22: Midterm exam.
• Lectures of March 27: Graph Algorithms (I)
• Lectures of March 29: Graph Algorithms (II)
• Lectures of April 3: Parallel I/O - Introduction (I)
• Lectures of April 5: Parallel I/O - Access Patterns (II) and 2nd homework
  Here you can also find the small test matrix, and a medium matrix. For the ones wanting an adventure, here is a huge matrix (Caution: it needs uncompressed 150MB of disk space!). Here are some comments to the matrices.
• Lectures of April 10: Parallel I/O - MPI I/O (III)
• Lectures of April 12: Scientific Data Libraries and Parallel Problem Solving Environments
• Lectures of April 17: Implementation Options
• Lectures of April 24: OpenMP - I
• Lectures of April 26: OpenMP - II and OpenMP - III
• Lectures of May 1st: Final exam

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