http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~cheng/Teaching/CSE375-08/schedule.html

Introduction (Chapter 1; 3 hours):

08/26: Course introduction, speedup factor

08/28: Architecture types of parallel computers

Message-passing Computing (Chapter 2; 6 hours):

09/02: Basics of message-passing programming

09/04: MPI

09/09: MPI examples

09/11: Evaluating and debugging parallel programs

Naturally Parallel Computations (Chapter 3; 4.5 hours):

09/16: Mandelbrot set, Individual programming assignment #1

09/18: Geometrical transformations of images, X11 functions

09/23: Monte Carlo methods, Debuging & tuning MPI programs

Partitioning and Divide-and-conquer (Chapter 4; 1.5 hours):

09/25: Partitioning and divide-and-conquer

Pipeline computations (Chapter 5; 3 hours):

09/30: Pipeline technique and platform

10/02: Pipeline program examples

Beowulf Cluster and Midterm (3 hours):

10/07: Beowulf cluster and group project introduction

10/09: Midterm exam

10/14: Pacing Break

Synchronous Computations (Chapter 6; 3 hours):

10/16: Synchronous computations

10/21: Synchronous computation examples

Load Balancing and Termination Detection (Chapter 7; 4.5 hours):

10/23: Load balancing

10/28: Load balancing using a line structure

10/30: Distributed termination algorithm, N-body problem

Programming with Shared Memory (Chapter 8; 9 hours):

11/04: Shared memory multiprocessors, processes and threads

11/06: Sharing data: lock, semaphore

11/11: Semaphore and monitor, task synchronization

11/13: Condition variables, parallel programming constructs, Bernstein conditions

11/18: OpenMP and individual programming assignment #2

11/20: Shared memory programming performance issues, dependency analysis

Distributed shared Memory Systems and Programming (Chapter 9; 3 hours):

11/25: Distributed shared memory programming

11/27: Thanksgiving Break

12/02: Adsmith, grid computing, group project presentation and demo

12/04: Parallel computer architecture review

Final Exam Date, Time, and Location: CSE 375010 WED DEC 10, 2008 08:00-11:00 A.M., MG 103

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