CS249 May Term 2001

Introduction to Parallel Processing

Dr. Josef M Breutzmann

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Daily Notes/Readings/Assignments

Week One	AM session(9:30)	PM session(12:30)
Mon Apr 23	Intro to course, begin Chapter 8 of Tanenbaum	Set up UCL accounts and examine code examples
Tue Apr 24	Tanenbaum 8 and topologies	Continue with code examples from Chapter 3 & 4 of Pacheco ---------------------------------------- Project One - Tree/Torus/Cube routing algorithms.
Wed Apr 25	Static Interconnection Networks	Project Two - Buffered Producer Consumer Model
Thu Apr 26	Static Interconnection Networks	Review & Lab
Fri Apr 27	Test One	Project Three - Newton's Method and Basin's of Attatraction

Week Two	AM session(9:30)	PM session(12:30)
Mon Apr 30	Dynamic Interconnection Networks, research Hardware Reports	Project Three - Parallelize the Basin's of Attraction Code
Tue May 1	TBA	Project Three
Wed May 2	Hardware Reports	Review & Lab
Thu May 3	Test Two	Project Three Lab Time
Fri May 4	Theoretical Speedup	Project Three Lab Time

Week Three	AM session(9:30)	PM session(12:30)
Mon May 7	Theoretical Speedup Amdahl vs. Gustafson	Project Four - Mesh Communications Heat Flow
Tue May 8	Timing communication in the UCL cluster	Review & Project Four discussion
Wed May 9	Test Three	Shared Memory Architectures
Thu May 10	Tanenbaum Chap 8	Project Four Lab Time
Fri May 11	Tanenbaum Chap 8	Project Four Lab TIme

Week One	AM session(9:30)	PM session(12:30)
Mon May 15	Tanenbaum Chap 8	Review & Lab for Project Five
Tue May 16	Test Four	Project Four Lab TIme
Wed May 17	Cleaning up loose ends	review for Final
Thu May 18	Final Exam	Late Projects etc.