CS575 Parallel Processing 2012 - Schedule

• Quiz 1 Introduction

• Lecture 1 introduction.
• Discussion 0 due on Jan. 20
• Discussion 1a due on Jan. 27
• Discussion 1b due on Jan. 29
• Panopto Video week 1 lecture 1
• Panopto Video week 1 lecture 2
• If needed, for background on analysis of algorithms, read Cormen et. al (1st or 2nd edition) - Chapter 4 or similar text, or check out CS420DL Introduction to Analysis of Algorithms, cs420dl
• Panopto Video week 2 lecture 1
• Lecture 2: Machine models.
• Panopto Video week 2 lecture 2

• Quiz 2 PRAMs

• Discussion 2a due on Feb. 3
• Discussion 2b due on Feb. 5
• Assignment 1 due on Feb. 8
• Lecture 3: Interconnection Networks.
• Lecture 4: Communication.
• Panopto Video week 3 lecture 1
• Panopto Video week 3 lecture 2

• Quiz 3 hypercubes

• Lecture 5 Speedup and Efficiency.
• Assignment 1 due on Feb. 8
• Start on Assignment 2
• Panopto Video week 4 lecture 1
• Panopto Video week 4 lecture 2 -->

• Quiz 4 Embedding and Communication

• Finish Speedup and Efficiency
• Discuss Assignment 2

• Quiz 5 Efficiency

• Chapter 8 Dense Linear Systems
• Assignment 2 due Feb. 26

• No Quiz

• Test on all material from weeks 1 to 5.
• On Campus test: Tuesday

• No Quiz

• Chapter 8 Dense Linear Systems
• LU Decomposition