SMA5505 – Spring 2005

Course Calendar (last modified: 17-Jan-05 3:57 PM)

Edelman’s lectures on Parallel Algorithms – click here

2 Feb	L0 – Course Admin L1 – Introduction
9 Feb	No Lecture	Chinese New Year
15 Feb	L2 – Parallel Architectures and Programming Models
22 Feb	L3 – Message Passing Computing	§ Project Proposal due § MPI Programming Tutorial http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/tutorial/gropp/talk.html
1 Mar	L4 – Shared- Memory Programming	§ OpenMP Programming Tutorial - http://www.llnl.gov/computing/tutorials/openMP/
8 Mar	L5 – Grid Computing	§ Globus Toolkit 3 Programmer’s Tutorial - http://gdp.globus.org/gt3-tutorial/ § Homework 0 – Buffon (due on 8 Mar)
15 Mar	Project Proposal & Progress Presentation	§ 1^st Project Progress Report due before presentation at 10am, Mar 15
22 Mar	No Lecture	SPRING BREAK · Homework 1 – Parallel Matrix Power (due on 22 Mar)
29 Mar	L6 – Parallel Algorithm Design
5 Apr	L6 - Parallel Algorithm Design
12 Apr	L7 – Principles of Scalable Performance	§ 2^nd Project Progress Report due before 5pm, Apr 12
19 Apr	L8 – Case Study of ALiCE Grid	· Test (open book) on 19 Apr
26 Apr	L9 – Conclusions Detailed Course Contents	· Homework 2: Parallel Sparse Conjugate Gradients (due on 26 Apr)
2 May	Student Project Presentation I	§ Final Project Report due before presentation at 10am, May 3
10 May	Student Project Presentation II	· Check homework marks · Check project marks

Note: This can change any time without prior notice.