Computer Science 335
Parallel Processing and High Performance Computing

Fall 2021, Siena College

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Agenda

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  • Upcoming due dates
    • Read Pacheco Ch. 2 by early next week
      • 2.1 gives some essential background about computer organization
      • you can just skim 2.2, which is all about interesting topics but not essential to our parallel programming focus
      • we already talked about some of the key ideas in 2.3, and we will not talk about and you will not be responsible for any of the interconnection network details or cache coherence
      • 2.4 previews approaches we will study in more detail
      • 2.5 is short and important to think about
      • 2.6 and 2.7 cover important topics we'll talk about next week, read this more carefully
      • 2.8 and 2.9 are some quick tips about parallel programming that will become useful when we switch to C
      • 2.10 is a summary, focus only on the material related to sections we focused on
    • Programming Project 1: Introduction to Jacobi Iteration [PDF] due this afternoon
• Lab 1: Java Threads Practice [HTML] [PDF]
  • it has been expanded a bit and now due Tuesday
  • we will continue working through in class as a group
  • when we have finished the in-class coding tasks, your remaining work will be to perform some timings and answer questions in the README.md of your repository
• The bag of tasks approach and critical sections
• Adding a bag of tasks to Lab 1: Java Threads Practice [HTML] [PDF]

Terminology

• bag of tasks