Math 447/627 - Introduction to Parallel Computing

Fall 2020 - Matthias K. Gobbert

Detailed Schedule - Last Updated 11/19/20

The synchronous class meetings are online, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 01:00-02:15, in Blackboard Collaborate. please see the detailed schedule below for more information.
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 H1a, H1b, H2, H3, etc. in the Class column indicate the due date of the homework with that number.

Class	Date	Main Topic
1, H1a	Th 08/27	Motivation for parallel computing and overview
2	Tu 09/01	Linux and serial ANSI-C "Hello, world!" on the HPCF cluster
3, H1b	Th 09/03	Parallel "Hello, world!" and running jobs on the HPCF cluster
4	Tu 09/08	Chapter 3: Greetings!
5, H2a	Th 09/10	Chapter 4: An Application: Numerical Integration
6	Tu 09/15	Chapter 4: An Application: Numerical Integration
7	Th 09/17	Chapter 9: Debugging Your Program
8, H2b	Tu 09/22	Scientific computing: numerical error vs. accumulated round-off
9	Th 09/24	Chapter 5: Collective Communication
10	Tu 09/29	Scientific computing tools: Make utility, matrix representation
11, H3a	Th 10/01	Chapter 5: Collective Communication
12	Tu 10/06	Chapter 5: Collective Communication
13	Th 10/08	Chapter 10: Design and Coding of Parallel Programs (power method)
14	Tu 10/13	Chapter 11: Performance
15, H3b	Th 10/15	Chapter 11: Performance
16	Tu 10/20	Scientific computing tools: BLAS, LAPACK, BLACS, ScaLAPACK, PETSc (Chapter 15)
17, H4b	Th 10/22	Report on project background
18	Tu 10/27	Scientific computing tools: BLAS, LAPACK, BLACS, ScaLAPACK, PETSc (Chapter 15)
19, H4a	Th 10/29	Scientific computing tools: BLAS, LAPACK, BLACS, ScaLAPACK, PETSc (Chapter 15)
20	Tu 11/03	Chapter 10: Design and Coding of Parallel Programs (CG method)
21, H5a	Th 11/05	Chapter 13: Advanced Point-to-Point Communication
22, H5b	Tu 11/10	Chapter 13: Advanced Point-to-Point Communication
23, H5c	Th 11/12	Chapter 12: More on Performance
24	Tu 11/17	Chapter 12: More on Performance
25, H5d	Th 11/19	OpenMP Multi-Threading in Parallel Computing
26	Tu 11/24	Update on project work
	Th 11/26	Thanksgiving Holiday
27	Tu 12/01	IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic
28	Th 12/03	Chapters 2, 10 (Sorting), 6, 7 overview
29	Tu 12/08	Update on project work
	Tu 12/15	01:00 p.m. Project Presentations; note the date and time!