ICOM 5995

Fall 2002

Course Meeting Schedule

Week 1

Meeting 1
August 16, 2002
4:00pm in S-203

Distribute and discuss syllabus. Describe the course and its contents. Schedule semester meetings.

Week 2

Meeting 2
August 19, 2002
2:30pm in S-203

Talk about project. Class did not meet since students had a very short notice and did not arrive to class.

Week 3

No meetings this week. Check email for homework assignment.

Week 4

Meeting 3
Sept. 5, 2002
2:30pm in S-203

Assigned homework 2. Topic: computer performance, basic terms.

Week 5

Meeting 4
September 18, 2002
2:30pm in S-203

Introduction to high performance computer architectures. Assigned testing Amadeus and MPI using Nas Parallel Benchmarks.

Week 5

Meeting 5
September 25, 2002
2:30pm in S-203

Software environments for parallel and distributed systems. Terminology of parallelism. Taxonomy of parallel programming tools. Assigned progress report #1: Propose a course project.

Week 6

Meeting 6
October 2, 2002
2:30pm in S-203

Introduction to parallel programming: message passing and shared memory. Go to Amadeus to test MPI.

Week 7

Meeting 7
October 7, 2002
2:30pm in S-122 (Amadeus)

Testing LAM/MPI on Amadeus.

Meeting 8
October 9, 2002
2:30pm in S-203

Message Passing. Shared Memory

Week 8

Meeting 9
October 16, 2002
2:30pm in S-203

Discuss project proposal. Parallel Programming Paradigms.

Week 9

Meeting 10
October 23, 2002
2:30pm in S-203

Message Passing and Shared Memory Implementations: MPI and OpenMP.

Week 10

Meeting 11
October 30, 2002
2:30pm in S-203

MPI Basic Commands. Testing performance tools in Amadeus.

Week 11

Meeting 12
November 6, 2002
2:30pm in S-203

Performance Evaluation Methodologies. Analytic, simulation-based, and measurement-based.

Week 12

Lecture cancelled.

Week 13

Meeting 13
November 20, 2002
2:30pm in S-203

Presentation Daniel Burbano: MPI implementation of FTTs for computational crystallography.

Week 14

Meeting 14
November 27, 2002
2:30pm in S-203

Current research in HPC and performance.

Week 15

Meeting 15
December 2, 2002
2:30pm in S-203

Project presentations.

Meeting 16
December 4, 2002
2:30pm in S-203

Project presentations.

LAST DAY OF CLASSES!