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Syllabus  Programming with ZPL  ZPL Guide (pdf)  Final Exam (word) (rtf) (pdf)  Final Exam soln (word) (html) (pdf) Assignments  Assignment 1 (and soln)  Assignment 2 (html) (pdf) (ppt) (soln)  Assignment 3  (soln)  Assignment 4

CSE 596 - Parallel Computation General Information Autumn Quarter 2002 Mondays, 6:30 - 9:20pm, EE01 003 (may change) Professor: Larry Snyder (snyder@cs) TA: Adam Carlson (carlson@cs) Mailing list: cse596@cs. To subscribe, send mail to subscribe-cse596@cs or visit Web based subscription. You can also view a mailing list archive. Schedule Date Topic/Readings/Assignments (readings/assignments are due on this date; click on topic for slides (in ppt)) Sep. 30 Topic: Administrivia, Introduction to Parallel Computation (Slides:powerpoint html pdf 2up) No reading Oct. 7 Topic: Models in Parallel Computation (Slides:powerpoint html pdf 2up) Reading: Lawrence Snyder Type Architecture, Shared Memory and the Corollary of Modest Potential, Annual Review of Comupter Science 1986, Annual Reviews 1:289-317 Reference: Robert van de Geijn and Jerrell Watts "SUMMA: Scalable Universal Matrix Multiplication Algorithm", Concurrency: Practice and Experience, Vol 9 (4), pp. 255-274 (April 1997) (also in pdf) Oct. 14 Topic: Handling Memory Problems (Slides:powerpoint html pdf 2up) Reading: Clyde P. Kruskal, Larry Rudolph and Marc Snir Efficient Synchronization on Multiprocessors with Shared Memory ACM Trans. on Programming Languages and Systems 10(4):579-601 1988 Oct. 21 Topic: Symmetric Multiprocessors (Slides:powerpoint html pdf 2up) Oct. 28 Topic: Shared Memory Without a Bus (Slides:powerpoint html pdf 2up) Nov. 4 Topic: ZPL Basics (Slides:powerpoint html pdf 2up) Nov. 11 Veteran's Day - No Class Nov. 18 Topic: Performance Model of ZPL (Slides:powerpoint html pdf 2up) Readings: ZPLs WYSIWYG Performance Model(pdf) Problem Space Promotion and Its Evaluation as a Technique for Efficient Parallel Computation(pdf) Nov. 25 Topic: The Parallel Runtime (Slides:powerpoint html pdf 2up) Dec. 2 Topic: Interprocessor Communciation (Slides:powerpoint html pdf 2up) Dec. 9 Topic:Summary of Parallel Computation (Slides:powerpoint html pdf 2up) Other papers: Programming in ZPL

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