Course Information for Fall 2008

Time: TR 9:30-10:45
Place: Mudd 323

Instructor Information

Prof. Stephanie R. Taylor (srtaylor)
Office: Mudd 416A
Phone: 859-5855

Office hours: Mon 10-12, Tues 1:30-3:30, Fri 1-3

Course Description

Parallel and distributed paradigms, architectures, and algorithms, and the analytical tools, environments, and languages needed to support these paradigms.

Textbook

Calvin Lin & Lawrence Snyder, Principles of Parallel Programming, Pearson/Addison Wesley.

Useful Links

• Top 500 - a list of the top 500 supercomputers in the world
• HPCWire - on-line news about high productivity computing
• HPC Challenge - an annual competition for high productivity computing
• Interactive Supercomputing - an example of a company that writes parallel software
• Yo Linux.com POSIX Tutorial - a nice Pthreads tutorial
• A List of MPI Constants
• MPI Tutorial at LLNL
• Another Helpful MPI Tutorial