CS 340 -- Section 01, Fall 2001, Ridgway Scott

Scientific Parallel Computing

• Time: 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm, Tuesday & Thursday
• Place: Ry 276
• Special notice: on Tuesday 6 Nov: NO CLASS, go instead at 3pm to the lecture by Avi Silberschatz - Place: Ryerson Hall 251
• Assignments
• More info on Task 2
• Course Description
• The course text will be notes we are preparing for publication and will be made available to the class (no charge).
• table of contents of the notes
• first chapter of the notes
• second chapter of the notes
• I have printed three more copies of chapters 3 and 4 to distribute in class on Thursday, but if you can't wait take a look here
• How to do (parallel) performance analysis
• Click here to set up a computer account for this course. On that page, click on request a CS student account.
• A mailing list has been set up here
to facilitate discussion about problems with programming or homework. Please set up an account for yourself on it.

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For help with either the Planguages or with using one of the clusters, contact Terry (Sotiria) Lampoudi
• slampoud@midway.uchicago.edu
• She has helpful hints on running programs, and
• she has a machine file suitable for this course.

Also contact Terry Clark at

• twclark@cs.uchicago.edu
regarding problems specifically with the Planguages (such as compiler errors).


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• Information on the Planguages
• The PC Reference Manual
• The PC Reference Manual title page

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For those who do really well in this course, I will recommend you for an intership like the one that IBM offers