Computer Science 400 Parallel Processing Siena College Fall 2008

Agenda

• Announcements
  • I expect to be on campus for much of the day Friday and again Monday afternoon.
• Exam 1 Recap
• Lecture Assignment Recap
• Conway's Game of Life
  • Sequential implementation
  • MPI parallelization
• Distributed-memory matrix-matrix multiplication
• Running MPI on RPI systems
• Lab 7 Out
• Term Project Out

Lecture Assignment

Due at the start of class, Wednesday, October 29.

Turn in short answers to these questions. Please turn in a hard copy (typeset or handwritten are OK). We will discuss these questions during class, so no late submissions are accepted.

The readings for next time are Quinn Chapters 3 and 6.

1. Quinn Exercise 5.2
2. Quinn Exercise 5.10

Examples

• life
• mpilife
• matmult_mpi_toosimple
• matmult_mpi_simple
• matmult_mpi_better