[CSC 435] Upcoming Events, Deliverables, and Classtimes

[Andrew J. Pounds]

Gentlemen...  I need to make sure we are on the same page with a few 
items...

   1. Our syllabus has us scheduled for a midterm exam on Thursday of
      this week.  I would like to reschedule that for next Thursday.  I
      will provide more information regarding this during classtime.
   2. I gave you an assignment several weeks ago where you were supposed
      to try various loop optimization techniques and let me know what
      worked on the nasty code I gave you.  If you remember, this is
      where you attempted to use gconf to figure out what was taking the
      most time.  Please provide me with a brief paper telling me what
      you did to enhance the performance.  If you tried any loop
      optimizations, please tell me what you did.  Per our syllabus,
      this is programming exercise 1.
   3. Three weeks ago I gave you a handout on Monte Carlo integration
      and embarrasingly parallel calculations.  I asked you to write
      some code for this and then try to run it in parallel using
      OpenMP.  I need you to finish this up (in C/C++) ASAP so we can
      start looking at parallel timings and Amdahls law in OpenMP.  This
      will, per the syllabus, form the code portion of programming
      exercise 2 and it will form the basis for programming exercise 3,
      in which we re-write this using /pthreads/.
   4. Programming Assignment 3 -- the Fireworks Finale -- is now on the
      website.  Please look over the assignment and let me know if you
      have any questions.  This project only has two deliverables -- but
      make no mistake, the final parallel code will be intense.
   5. The first "baby blas" deliverable is due next Tuesday.
   6. In class today we will experiment with PBS and  I will show you
      some techniques to guarantee you get correct timings from the
      cluster. Please reboot the systems into olympus once you get to
      class today.  I will also show you how to use gnuplot to fit your
      timing data.



-- 
Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D.  (pounds at theochem.mercer.edu)
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science
Mercer University,  Macon, GA 31207   (478) 301-5627

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