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<font face="serif">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 </font>February
20th.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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 <br>
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!<br>
<br>
<br>
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Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D. (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pounds_aj@mercer.edu">pounds_aj@mercer.edu</a>)
Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science
Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207 (478) 301-5627
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://faculty.mercer.edu/pounds_aj">http://faculty.mercer.edu/pounds_aj</a>
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