Computer Science 335
Parallel Processing and High Performance Computing

Fall 2026, Siena University

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Agenda

• Welcome!
• Why parallel processing?
  • thinking about problems with parallelism
  • motivations
    • speedup
    • scale-up
    • natural concurrency
    • parallel hardware
• Syllabus and administrative details
  • course website and Canvas
  • accounts on the server
  • GitHub Ids
  • Join the GitHub organization
• Friday will be a lab day
• Upcoming due dates
  • Read Pacheco Ch. 1 by early next week
  • Programming Project 1: Introduction to Jacobi Iteration [PDF] groups formed by Monday afternoon
  • Programming Project 1: Introduction to Jacobi Iteration [PDF] due next Friday

Handouts

• Why Parallel Computing?

Terminology

• master-worker, bag of tasks
• domain decomposition
• speedup
• scale-up
• sequential program
• concurrent program