[CSC 435] Changing BabyBLAS first deliverable date

[Andrew J. Pounds]

Guys -- based on the usage patterns on the SVN, you all haven't made a 
lot of progress on the BabyBLAS project or Fireworks.   I am most 
concerned about the BabyBLAS as it is foundational to so many areas of 
HPC computing.  I will therefore EXTEND the due date for the 
single-threaded BabyBLAS to February 20th.

According to the Fireworks documentation, I was supposed to have 
received a paper from the group on January 30th describing how you were 
proposing to do the project and the proposed division of labor for the 
project.   I would like that discussion to take place tomorrow during 
class and the paper submitted to me by the end of class.  A serial code 
to launch a firework was supposed to be turned in by the group on 
February 6th and a working serial version of the code submitted by next 
week -- clearly I don't think you are going to make that deadline.   I 
will give you until February 25th to get the serial version of the code 
working.

I will be making several updates to the class webpage with examples for 
calling the various random number generators, using Pthreads, and also 
using OpenMP.  The big things you need to be concerned about this week 
and next week is working together on
Fireworks and also getting your first BabyBLAS code finished up. While I 
have several things I want to demonstrate to you related to SMP 
programming, I am much more concerned about you all diving, making some 
progress, in and personally experiencing the joy of getting these things 
to run FAST.  I'll work my comments in as appropriate -- but lets get 
some code going and heat up the lab!


-- 
Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D.  (pounds_aj at mercer.edu)
Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science
Mercer University,  Macon, GA 31207   (478) 301-5627
http://faculty.mercer.edu/pounds_aj

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