Math 627 - Introduction to Parallel Computing

Fall 2006 - Matthias K. Gobbert

Schedule - Last Updated December 19, 2006

This schedule is designed to give you an overview of the material to be covered and is tentative in nature.
The chapter numbers refer to Peter S. Pacheco, Parallel Programming with MPI, Morgan Kaufmann, 1997.

We decided to lengthen the class meetings 5, 6, ..., 24, 25 by 15 minutes each in order to finish covering the elements of MPI faster and to allow for some focus on project work in the later part of the semester. We will thus meet 12:45-02:15 starting September 14, 2006. For comparison, our original schedule as published in the syllabus.

Class	Date	Main Topic
1	Th 08/31	Chapter 1: Introduction
2	Tu 09/05	Chapter 3: Greetings!
3, #1	Th 09/07	Chapter 4: An Application: Numerical Integration
4	Tu 09/12	Chapter 9: Debugging Your Program
5	Th 09/14	Chapter 5: Collective Communication
#2	Tu 09/19	UMBC's 40th birthday celebration
6	Th 09/21	Chapter 5: Collective Communication
7	Tu 09/26	Chapter 11: Performance
8	Th 09/28	Chapter 2: An Overview of Parallel Computing
9, #3	Tu 10/03	Chapter 6: Grouping Data for Communication
10	Th 10/05	Chapter 6: Grouping Data for Communication
11	Tu 10/10	Chapter 8: Dealing with I/O
12	Th 10/12	Chapter 2: An Overview of Parallel Computing
13, #4	Tu 10/17	Chapter 13: Advanced Point-to-Point Communication
14	Th 10/19	Chapter 13: Advanced Point-to-Point Communication
15	Tu 10/24	Chapter 13: Advanced Point-to-Point Communication
16	Th 10/26	Chapter 12: More on Performance
17, #5	Tu 10/31	Chapter 10: Design and Coding of Parallel Programs (Jacobi method)
18	Th 11/02	Chapter 10: Design and Coding of Parallel Programs (Sorting)
19	Tu 11/07	Introduction to the Beowulf cluster `kali`
20	Th 11/09	Report on project background
	Tu 11/14	Project Work
21	Th 11/16	Chapter 7: Communicators and Topologies
22	Tu 11/21	Update on project work
	Th 11/23	Thanksgiving Holiday
23	Tu 11/28	Chapter 15: Parallel Libraries: ScaLAPACK
24	Th 11/30	Chapter 15: Parallel Libraries: PETSc
	Tu 12/05	Project work
	Th 12/07	Overiew over the IEEE-standard for floating-point arithmetic
25	Tu 12/12	Update on project work and preparation of presentations
	Tu 12/19	01:00-3:00 Project Presentations; notice the date and time!