[CSC 435] No Class Tomorrow and Strategy

[Andrew J. Pounds]

Guys -- I am not planning on us meeting tomorrow and there will be no 
class next Tuesday due to BEAR DAY.  I do expect, however, to see you 
working on code and running tests in the batch queues. Your proof of 
concept to demonstrate that you can achieve better porformance when 
using OpenMP should not be too difficult to pull together.  I recommend 
picking a fairly big matrix dimension and running tests over 1 - 20 
compute nodes.  Then do the pick some number of thread, say 4, and run 
your OpenMP code over 1 - 20 compute nodes.  Graph the megaflops vs 
number of nodes for both tests and you should have a pretty clear 
winner.  BUT -- don't wait to do this.  There will invariably be some 
clean-up and debugging to do.

As Tyler found out, my research lab on the 4th floor of Godsey is a 
great place to work on this stuff because you are using your files just 
like you were in GSC 218.   You should all have keycard access.

E-mail me with questions.  I hope to have the BabyBLAS graded soon.


-- 
*Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D.*
/Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science/
/Director of the Computational Science Program/
/Mercer University, Macon, GA, 31207 (478) 301-5627 /
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