Prof. Stewart Weiss, Department of Computer Science, Hunter College

Course Documents

• Contact Information and Course Requirements
• Preparation for This Class
• Rules Regarding Programming Projects

Lecture Notes

• Chapter 1: Motivation, Background, and Key Concepts
• Chapter 2: Parallel Architectures and Interconnection Networks
• Chapter 3: Parallel Algorithm Design
• Chapter 4: Message-Passing Programming
• Chapter 5: Floyd's Algorithm
• Chapter 6: Performance Analysis
• Chapter 7: Matrix-Vector Multiplication
• Chapter 8: Monte Carlo Methods
• Chapter 9: Combinatorial Search (not yet complete)
• Chapter 10: Shared Memory Parallelism with Pthreads

Slides and Other Resources

• Compiling and Running OpenMPI Programs
• Unix Command Tutorial: Basics and Commands
• Chapter 1: Introduction to Parallelism in Computing
• Chapter 2: Parallel Architectures and Structures

Assignments

• Assignment 1, due Feb.12, 7:00 PM
• Assignment 2, due March 7, 7:00 PM
• Assignment 3, due March 25, 7:00 PM
• Assignment 4 (revised), due April 15, 7:00 PM
• Assignment 5, due May 6, 7:00 PM