Computer Science 335
Parallel Processing and High Performance Computing

Fall 2026, Siena University

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Agenda

• 25th anniversary

  

• Announcements
  • Read Pacheco Ch. 1 this week - it's short
• Programming Project 1: Introduction to Jacobi Iteration [PDF], introduction and setup
  • groups formed by Monday
  • due next Friday
  • quick discussion: comfort level with AI assisted programming
• Parallelism Basics
  • basic terminology
  • hardware
  • how?

Handouts

• Parallelism Basics

Terminology

• sequential program
• concurrent program
• communication
• synchronization
• shared variables
• message passing
• single instruction, single data
• single instruction, multiple data
• multiple instruction, multiple data
• single program, multiple data, interacting peers
• partitioning
• task parallelism
• data parallelism
• team of threads
• asynchronous
• concurrency

Examples

• Stampede3 at TACC
• https://www.top500.org/.