CS 475: Detailed Schedule

Month	Day		Week	Lecture	Presentn.	Lab (Wednesday)	Assignments		Readings
							Posted	Due
Aug	25	Tue	1	Introduction	Tue audio	NERSC Accounts & Data Plotting	HW 0	HW 0	Data Plotting
	27	Thu		Introduction (2)	Thu
Sep	1	Tue	2	Parallel Program Design	Tue	LaTex/LyX			Chapter 3
	3	Thu			Thu
	8	Tue	3	My first (pleasantly) parallel program	Tue	Circuit Satisfiability	HW 1	Redo HW 0	Chapter 4
	10	Thu		Using NERSC	Thu
	15	Tue	4	Moving On with MPI: Eratosthenes	Tue	bassi/NERSC, block distribution		HW 1	Chapter 5
	17	Thu			Thu		HW 2
	22	Tue	5	Optimizing the sieve, tiling	Tue	Debugging MPI		HW 2
	24	Thu			Thr
	29	Tue	6	Point to Point Communication	Tue	P2P Comm. and Makefiles			Chapter 6
Oct	1	Thu			Thr
	6	Tue	7	Review & Mock Test	Tue	No Lab -- Study Break		Study
	8	Thu		Midterm 1
	13	Tue	8	0/1 Knapsack Dynamic Programming	Tue	Knapsack			Notes
	15	Thu			Thr		HW 3	HW 3
	Note: W-Drop date is Monday, October 19
	20	Tue	9	Midterm 1 + more knapsack	Tue	Pipeline Parallelization
	22	Thu		Send-Recv nuances, Deadlock	Thr
	27	Tue	10	Shared Memory Programming OpenMP.org LLNL Tutorial	Tue	OpenMP			Chapter 17
	29	Thu			Thr			Free
Nov	3	Tue	11		Tue	Pipelining in OpenMP	HW 4	HW 4
	5	Thu			Thr
	10	Tue	12		Tue	More OpenMP
	12	Thu		Fooling the Masses (a classic paper revisited)	Thr				Bailey paper
	17	Tue	13	Review & Mock Test	Tue
	19	Thu		Midterm 2
	24	Tue	Thanksgiving Break
	26	Thu
Dec	1	Tue	14	Performance Analysis Amdahl, Gustaffson, etc.	Tue	Open Lab		Proj	Chapter 7
	3	Thu			Thr
	8	Tue	15	Case Studies & Performance Tuning	Tue	Hybrid OpenMP/MPI
	10	Thu		Perspectives (guest lecture)	Thr
	17	Thu	Final Project Report due at 11:59 pm.