Parallel and Distributed Computing

Fall 2001
CS 6/73995

Co-instructors:

Miscellaneous

Programming Information

Homework Assignments

  • Homework 1 ps pdf
    (due in class 9/24/01)

Exams

    to be added...

Lectures

  • 8/27/01 Organizational Meeting
    (Hord Chapters 1 & 2)
  • 8/29/01 Basic Concepts ps pdf
    (Hord Chapters 1 & 2)
  • 8/31/01 MPI & LAM Introduction ps pdf
    (ND MPI Tutorial Part 1, slides 1-47)
    (Wilkinson 2.1 & 2.2.3, Foster 8.1-8.2) -- Prof. Walker --
  • 9/3/01 -- class cancelled (Labor Day)
  • 9/5/01 MPI Point-to-Point Commun. ps pdf
    (ND MPI Tutorial Part 1, slides 48-77) -- Prof. Walker --
  • 9/7/01 -- class cancelled
  • 9/10/01 MPI Collective Communication ps pdf
    (ND MPI Tutorial Part 1, slides 78-101)
    (Foster 8.3) -- Prof. Walker --
  • 9/12/01 More MPI Communication ps pdf
    (ND MPI Tutorial Part 2, slides 1-27, 51-67) -- Prof. Walker --
  • 9/14/01 ACS/MASC Overview pdf
    -- Profs. Walker & Baker --
  • 9/17/01 Parallel Computers ps pdf
    (Wilkinson 1) -- Prof. Baker --
  • 9/19/01 Parallel Computers (cont.)
    (Wilkinson 1) -- Prof. Baker --
  • 9/21/01 Parallel Computers (cont.)
    (Wilkinson 1) -- Prof. Baker --
  • 9/24/01 MS Thesis Defense by Yanping Wang in MSB 113 at 1:00pm announcement
  • 9/26/01 Evaluating Parallel Programs ps pdf
    (Wilkinson 2) -- Prof. Baker --
  • 9/28/01 Evaluating Parallel Programs (cont.)
    (Wilkinson 2) -- Prof. Baker --
  • 10/1/01 Embarassingly Parallel Computations
    (Wilkinson 3) -- Prof. Baker --
  • 10/3/01 Embarassingly Parallel Computations (cont.)
    (Wilkinson 3) -- Prof. Baker --
  • 10/5/01 Partitioning
    (Wilkinson 4) -- Prof. Baker --
  • 10/8/01 Partitioning (cont.)
    (Wilkinson 4) -- Prof. Baker --
  • 10/10/01 Pipelined Computation
    (Wilkinson 5) -- Prof. Baker --
  • 10/12/01 Pipelined Computation (cont.)
    (Wilkinson 5) -- Prof. Baker --

Lectures (cont.)

  • 10/15/01 Synchronous Computation
    (Wilkinson 6) -- Prof. Baker --
  • 10/17/01 Synchronous Computation (cont.)
    (Wilkinson 6) -- Prof. Baker --
  • 10/19/01 Load Balancing & Term. Detection
    (Wilkinson 7) -- Prof. Baker --
  • 10/22/01 Load Balancing & Term. Detection (cont.)
    (Wilkinson 7) -- Prof. Baker --
  • 10/24/01 -- class cancelled
  • 10/26/01 Load Balancing & Term. Detection (cont.)
    (Wilkinson 7) -- Prof. Baker --
  • 10/29/01 Associative Programming, Part I
    -- Prof. Potter --
  • 10/31/01 Associative Programming, Part II
    -- Prof. Potter --
  • 11/2/01 Associative Programming, Part III
    -- Prof. Potter --
  • 11/5/01 Associative Programming, Part IV
    -- Prof. Potter --
  • 11/7/01 Associative Programming, Part V
    -- Prof. Potter --
  • 11/9/01 Midterm Exam
  • 11/12/01 -- class cancelled (Veterans Day)
  • 11/14/01 Associative Algorithms, Part I
    -- Prof. Baker --
  • 11/16/01 Associative Algorithms & Architectures
    -- Prof. Potterer --
  • 11/19/01 Associative Algorithms, Part I
    -- Prof. Baker --
  • 11/21/01 -- class cancelled (Thanksgiving)
  • 11/23/01 -- class cancelled (Thanksgiving)
  • 11/26/01 MIMD Architectures, Part I ps pdf
    (Hord 5.1 & 5.2) -- Prof. Walker --
  • 11/28/01 MIMD Architectures, Part II ps pdf
    (Hord 5.3, 5.4 & 5.8) -- Prof. Walker --
  • 11/30/01 MIMD Architectures, Part III ps pdf
    (Hord 5.5, 5.7 & 5.9) -- Prof. Walker --
  • 12/3/01 SIMD Architectures, Part I ps pdf
    (Hord 3.4) -- Prof. Walker --
  • 12/5/01 SIMD Architectures, Part II ps pdf
    -- Prof. Walker --
  • 12/7/01 SIMD Architectures, Part III ps pdf
    (Hord 3.7 & 4.1) -- Prof. Walker --