Computer Science 400
Parallel Processing and High Performance Computing

Fall 2017, Siena College

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Agenda

• Welcome!
• Why parallel processing?
  • thinking about problems with parallelism
  • motivations
    • speedup
    • scale-up
    • natural concurrency
    • parallel hardware
  • some basics
  • hardware
  • how?
• Syllabus and administrative details
• Note: lecture assignment below
• Lab 0: Setting Up

Lecture 01 Assignment

Due at the start of class, Thursday, September 7.

Please submit answers to these questions in Blackboard under "Lecture 01 Assignment" by the start of class. We will discuss these questions at the start of class, so no late submissions can be accepted.

Read Chapter 1 of Pacheco, then answer the following questions.

• Pacheco Exercise 1.1, p. 12. (5 points)
• Pacheco Exercise 1.2, p. 12. (5 points)