COMP4300: Unit Activity Timetable


Indicative Course Schedule

The following is a very rough draft of the sort of things we expect to cover in this course and when we will address them. There will be a total of 26 lectures. The initial aim is to get you up and running programs on the APAC National Facility Alphaserver SC as soon as possible. This will happen in week 4.

Week 
Mon 3-4
ENGN T
Tue 3-4
ENGN T
Thu 3-4
ENGN T
 Laboratories
Thu10-12 N115
Assignments 
 1:Mar  3 Unit introduction, Earth Simulator, ASCI, APAC, the APAC National Facility
parallel hardware design, address space organisation, interconnects, cache coherency
   
 2:Mar 10 Basic Communication
Performance Measures, MPI
Dr Lindsay Hood
Compaq Alphaserver SC and GS1280
   
 3:Mar 17 Canberra Day No Lecture Dr Lindsay Hood
APAC Site Visit
   
 4:Mar 24 Message passing with MPI No Lecture Embarassingly parallel problems lab1  
 5:Mar 31 Partitioning schemes
divide and conquer
No Lecture Pipelined computations    
 6:Apr  7 Synchronization
No Lecture Load balancing issues
lab2 Ass1 Written
 7:Apr 14 Assignment 1 Presentations
N101 3-5pm
No Lecture No Lecture    
Mid Semester Break (Monday April 21 - Friday May 2)
 8:May  5 Enabling the Efficient Use of SMP Clusters:
The GAMESS/DDI Model
Ryan Olson: N101
No Lecture Numerical and
Non-Numerical examples
   
 9:May 12 Performance analysis tools (eg VAMPIR) No Lecture Assignment 2 discussion    
10:May 19 MPI-2 No Lecture Shared memory parallel systems lab3  
11:May 26 OpenMP and threads No Lecture The Global Array Tools    
12:Jun  2 No Lecture No Lecture The FUTURE! lab4
Thurs 12-2pm N111
Ass2 Due
13:Jun  9 Queen's b/d The GRID and summary    


Email:Alistair.Rendell@anu.edu.au or phone 54386
Last modified: Thu Jun 5 01:07:02 EST 2003