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<p><font face="serif">The final will be a mixture of multiple choice
and free response questions. Since the midterm we have
discussed/used:</font></p>
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<li><font face="serif">Concepts of Parallelism</font></li>
<li><font face="serif">Data Dependence and its impact on parallelism/vectorization</font></li>
<li><font face="serif">Performance Counters (PAPI)</font></li>
<li><font face="serif">Shared Memory Parallelism (via Pthreads and
OpenMP)</font></li>
<li><font face="serif">Distributed Parallelism (via MPI)</font></li>
<li><font face="serif">Basic ideas of GPU Programming via CUDA
(pre-Pascal architecture)</font></li>
<li><font face="serif">How to build distributed makefiles with mutiple
subdirectories<br>
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<li><font face="serif">How to build libraries</font></li>
<li><font face="serif">How to do mixed-language programming</font></li>
<li><font face="serif">How to use high-performance libraries (like
Atlas/OpenBLAS/CudaBLAS)</font></li>
<li><font face="serif">Calculating Megaflops</font></li>
<li><font face="serif">Building Performance graphs and Speedup
Plots</font></li>
<li><font face="serif">Amdahl's Law</font></li>
<li><font face="serif">Coding principles that enhance and hinder
HPC <br>
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<li><font face="serif">Batch schedulers and their proper use</font></li>
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<p>Look over ALL of the sheets I have handed out as well as the code
we have worked on. I will give you one hour for the exam,
although I expect many of you to finish early.<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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