Class | Date | Main Topic | |
1 | Th 08/29 | Motivation for parallel computing and overview | |
2, #1a | Tu 09/03 | Linux and serial ANSI-C "Hello, world!" on the HPCF cluster | |
3, #1b | Th 09/05 | Parallel "Hello, world!" and running jobs on the HPCF cluster | |
4 | Tu 09/10 | Chapter 3: Greetings! | |
5, #2a | Th 09/12 | Chapter 4: An Application: Numerical Integration | |
6 | Tu 09/17 | Chapter 4: An Application: Numerical Integration | |
7 | Th 09/19 | Chapter 9: Debugging Your Program | |
8, #2b | Tu 09/24 | Scientific computing: numerical error vs. accumulated round-off | |
9 | Th 09/26 | Chapter 5: Collective Communication | |
10 | Tu 10/01 | Scientific computing tools: Make utility, matrix representation | |
11, #3a | Th 10/03 | Chapter 5: Collective Communication | |
12 | Tu 10/08 | Chapter 10: Design and Coding of Parallel Programs (power method) | |
13 | Th 10/10 | Chapter 11: Performance | |
14, #3b | Tu 10/15 | Scientific computing tools: BLAS, LAPACK, BLACS, ScaLAPACK, PETSc (Chapter 15) | |
15 | Th 10/17 | Report on project background | |
16, #4b | Tu 10/22 | Chapter 7: Communicators and Topologies | |
17 | Th 10/24 | Update on project work | |
18, #4a | Tu 10/29 | Chapter 10: Design and Coding of Parallel Programs (Jacobi method) | |
19 | Th 10/31 | Chapter 10: Design and Coding of Parallel Programs (CG method) | |
20, #5a | Tu 11/05 | Chapter 13: Advanced Point-to-Point Communication | |
21, #5b | Th 11/07 | Chapter 13: Advanced Point-to-Point Communication | |
22, #5c | Tu 11/12 | Chapter 12: More on Performance | |
23 | Th 11/14 | Chapter 10: Design and Coding of Parallel Programs (Sorting) | |
24, #5d | Tu 11/19 | Chapter 2: An Overview of Parallel Computing | |
25 | Tu 11/21 | OpenMP Multi-Threading in Parallel Computing | |
26, #5e | Th 11/26 | Update on project work | |
Th 11/28 | Thanksgiving Holiday | ||
27 | Tu 12/03 | GPUs (graphics processing units) in Parallel Computing | |
28 | Th 12/05 | IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic | |
29 | Tu 12/10 | Update on project work | |
Tu 12/17 | 01:00 p.m. Project Presentations; note the date and time! | ||