Course Description for CS249: Introduction to Parallel Processing May 2001

Instructor: Dr. Josef M. Breutzmann Office BHS 218 Phone (352) 8342

Office Hours: MTW F 8:30-9:00, 11:00-11:45, 2:00-2:30, and other times as arranged

Meeting Times: daily 9:30-11:00 in BHS 221, 11:30-1:00 in BHS 220.

Prerequisite: CS220 or two semesters high-level language programming or instructor consent

Text: Pacheco. Parallel Programming with MPI. San Francisco:Morgan Kaufmann, 1997.

Description:.Students will be introduced to the theory and practice of parallel processing. Morning sessions will be devoted to the text material while the afternoon sessions will concentrate on the applications of these principles to lab projects.

Attendance: Attendance will be taken daily. Students with excessive absences may be required to do extra work to demonstrate their mastery of any missed topics. Further, excessive absences will relieve the instructor of any obligation to "catch up" a student through private tutoring.

Honor Code: By attending Wartburg College, students are demonstrating their dedication to the Honor Code. The Honor Code reminds students of their responsibility to promote academic honesty by opposing cheating and plagiarism and reporting dishonest work. [Please review the Wartburg Honor Code pamphlet.]

Grading: Distribution of points among tests, quizzes, projects and homework as detemined in consultation with the students the first day of class.

The grading curve will be no more severe than:

A

 93.3%

A-

 90.0%

B+

 86.6%

B

 83.3%

B-

 80.0%

C+

 76.6%

C

 73.3%

C-

 70.0%

D+

 66.6%

D

 63.3%

D-

 60.0%

F

 <60.0%