CS 594
Understanding Parallel Architectures:
From Theory To Practice

Jack Dongarra, Professor and Yves Robert, Visiting Scientist

Spring 1997

3 credits

To find out more about this Course click here.

For the Course handout click here. For the Course survey click here.

Lecture Notes: (Tentative outline of the class)

• Jan 15 Overview of High-Performance Computing

• Jan 22 Scheduling (i)

• Jan 29 PVM and MPI

• Feb 5 Scheduling (ii)

• Feb 12 Software pipelining

• Feb 19 Blocked linear algebra kernels (BLAS3)

• Feb 26 ScaLAPACK

• Mar 5 Macro-communications

• Mar 12 High Performance Computers

• Mar 19 Loops (i)

• Mar 26 Spring break

• Apr 2 Loops (ii)

• Apr 9 HPF

• Apr 16 Applications (i)

• Apr 23 Applications (ii)

• Apr 30 Conclusion

• May 8 Final exam

Assignments:

Assignment 1 (due January 22nd, 1997) click here.