Math 447/627 - Introduction to Parallel Computing

Fall 2018 - Matthias K. Gobbert

Detailed Schedule - Last Updated 11/27/18

This schedule is designed to give you an overview of the material to be covered and is tentative in nature. It is a living document and will be updated throughout the semester.
The chapter numbers refer to Peter S. Pacheco, Parallel Programming with MPI, Morgan Kaufmann, 1997.
The numbers #1, #2, etc. in the Class column indicate that the homework with that number is due at the beginning of class that day.
The orange color indicates software workshops on Matlab, offered by the Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Consulting (circ.umbc.edu).

Class	Date	Main Topic
1	Th 08/30	Motivation for parallel computing and overview
2, #1a	Tu 09/04	Linux and serial ANSI-C "Hello, world!" on the cluster `maya`
	We 09/05	12:00-01:00, ENGR 122: CIRC Software workshop: Basic MATLAB
3, #1b	Th 09/06	Parallel "Hello, world!" and running jobs on `maya`
4	Tu 09/11	Chapter 3: Greetings!
5, #2a	Th 09/13	Chapter 4: An Application: Numerical Integration
6	Tu 09/18	Chapter 4: An Application: Numerical Integration
	We 09/19	12:00-01:00, ENGR 122: CIRC Software workshop: Basic Programming in MATLAB
7	Th 09/20	Chapter 9: Debugging Your Program
8, #2b	Tu 09/25	Scientific computing: numerical error vs. accumulated round-off
9	Th 09/27	Chapter 5: Collective Communication
10	Tu 10/02	Scientific computing tools: Make utility, matrix representation
	We 10/03	12:00-01:00, ENGR 122: CIRC Software workshop: Intermediate Programming in MATLAB
11, #3a	Th 10/04	Chapter 5: Collective Communication
12	Tu 10/09	Chapter 10: Design and Coding of Parallel Programs (power method)
13	Th 10/11	Chapter 11: Performance
14, #3b	Tu 10/16	Scientific computing tools: BLAS, LAPACK, BLACS, ScaLAPACK, PETSc (Chapter 15)
	We 10/17	12:00-01:00, ENGR 122: CIRC Software workshop: Advanced Programming in MATLAB
15	Th 10/18	Scientific computing tools: BLAS, LAPACK, BLACS, ScaLAPACK, PETSc (Chapter 15)
16, #4b	Tu 10/23	Chapter 7: Communicators and Topologies
17	Th 10/25	Chapter 7: Communicators and Topologies
18, #4a	Tu 10/30	Chapter 10: Design and Coding of Parallel Programs (Jacobi method)
19	Th 11/01	Chapter 10: Design and Coding of Parallel Programs (CG method)
20, #5a	Tu 11/06	Chapter 13: Advanced Point-to-Point Communication
21, #5b	Th 11/08	Chapter 13: Advanced Point-to-Point Communication
22, #5c	Tu 11/13	Chapter 12: More on Performance
23	Th 11/15	Class cancelled due to snow
24, #5d	Tu 11/20	Report on project background
	Th 11/22	Thanksgiving Holiday
25	Tu 11/27	Chapter 10: Design and Coding of Parallel Programs (Sorting)
26	Th 11/29	Chapter 7: Communicators and Topologies
27	Tu 12/04	Chapter 2: An Overview of Parallel Computing
28	Th 12/06	OpenMP Multi-Threading in Parallel Computing
29	Tu 12/11	Project presentations