Computer Science 400
Parallel Processing

Lecture 06: Message Passing Introduction and MPI
Date: October 8, 2008

Announcements
- Exam during the first part of our next class meeting
- Lab 5 due Monday 10/13 at midnight
Exam next week
- At the start of class, about 1 hour
- Open book, notes, class web, and class examples
- Major topics
  - finding opportunities for parallelism
  - multithreading with pthreads and OpenMP
  - critical sections and mutexes
  - bag of tasks and domain decomposition
  - Amdahl's Law
  - loop scheduling in OpenMP
- Look at lecture assignment questions
Lecture assignment recap
OpenMP recap
Logging in to RPI Computer Science Department accounts
Message passing introduction
- Cooperating processes
- Message passing libraries
The Message Passing Interface (MPI)
- Terminology
- Major MPI functions

No new lecture assignment this week. Plenty to keep busy with the upcoming exam and labs.