Computer Science 507
Software Engineering
Spring 2014, The College of Saint Rose
Lecture 10: Parallel and Distributed Computing
Date: Monday, March 31, 2014
Agenda
- Announcements
- information about upcoming courses
- Lecture 9 assignment recap
- Brief design project status reports
- Crash course on parallel and distributed computing
- next week's speaker's talk will be much more understandable
and relevant if you have a little background
- notes for first part available as topic notes on schedule page
- talk slides on mogul in /home/cs507/s14/speaker-slides/teresco/parallel.pdf
- Guest speaker: Amitha Perera of Google
Lecture 10 Assignment
Due at the start of class, Monday, April 7.
Please submit answers to these questions
either as a hard copy (typeset or handwritten are OK) or by email to
terescoj AT strose.edu by the start of class. Please use a clear subject line
when submitting by email (e.g., CSC 507 Lecture
Assignment 10, Joe Student). We will discuss these
questions at the start of class, so no late submissions are
accepted.
The readings for next class are Sommerville Chapter 18. Also see
the Chapter 18 presentations on the text's site.
- Complete a speaker summary for our guest speaker Amitha Perera.
In a page or less, describe the key points you took from the talk
and discussion. (10 points)
- Sommerville Exercise 18.2, p. 506 (4 points)
- Sommerville Exercise 18.10, p. 507 (4 points)