Week

Dates

Reading

Lecture Topics

Special Events

1

11/30, 12/2 3-92 Introduction 
What is Parallel Computing?
(intro.ppt)
Measures of Performance (speedup.ppt)
Topology (topology.ppt)
 

2

12/7, 12/9 93-178
Notes
Data Parallelism
Parallaxis (parallaxis.ppt)
Last day to add/drop - 12/6

3

12/14, 12/16 Notes Matrix Multiplication (matrix.ppt)
Class Cancelled
 

4

1/4, 1/6 Notes
179-282
Parallel Architecture (architecture.ppt)
Shared Memory Parallel Computing (shared.ppt)
 

5

1/11, 1/13 Notes Distributed Memory Parallel Computing (message.ppt)  

6

1/18, 1/20 283-386
Notes
JCSP
No class - take home exam
Midterm (take home ) 1/20
Last day to withdraw - 1/21

7

1/25, 1/27 Notes Parallel Networks -- atk
Introduction to MPI (mpi.ppt)
 

8

2/1, 2/3 Notes Distributed Parallel Computing (vce.ppt)  

9

2/8, 2/10 Notes MPI at RIT (ritmpi.ppt)
Java Spaces - Stephan Roorda (space.ppt)
 

10

2/15, 2/17 Notes Distributed Systems (distributed.ppt)
Distribute exam, course evaluations