CS 575 Class Calendar - Spr 1995

Week 1: (lab BA 113 on Wednesday)
   [UNIX] Both the Cray and Paragon are a UNIX machines. We will begin the semester using rohan, a SUN SPARC 10 machine in the Xterm lab while students become reasonably functional in UNIX and with Xwindows.  Also extensive use of the Internet will be covered. (1 week)

  [Scientific Computing] Handout of materials from Dr. Lloyd Fosdick and Dr. Elizabeth Jessup, U. Colorado, Boulder

Weeks 2-4: (lab BA 113 on Wednesday)
  [High Performance Computing] To effectively use upercomputers, you need an understanding of the hardware features.  We will cover a subsets of the material in our textbook taken from several chapters

       Chapter 1. What is high performance computing
       Chapter 2. RISC computers
       Chapter 3. Memory

  ** Feb. 20 (Monday) First timing code with written report due

Weeks 5-7:
      Chapter 4. What an optimizing compiler does
      Chapter 7. Timing and Profiling
      Chapter 8. Understanding Parallelism

     [Performance Evaluation/Usage Monitoring]  You will have a FIXED amount of Cray time to use to complete your computer projects.  You must learn to manage your allocation of a valuable, but scarce, resource.

  **  March 15 Ethic Essay Due

Week 8:
     [Computers and Ethics]

Week 9:
     Handout from Cray's TR-OPT manual.

     March 29 - In class midterm exam

Weeks 10,12,13:

 ** April 19 (Week 12) - Your science code on rohan with written report due

  If you want to turn your "science code + report" in early, you can have your Cray account early.

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                  *  April 10-15 Spring BREAK  *
                  *           Week 11          *
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  [Impact of Architecture on Algorithms] Cray-specific.
  Chapter 10. Loop Optimizations
  Chapter 11. Memory Reference Optimization

 [Software Tools] Effective use of the Fortran or C compilers.  Debugging and performance tools.

Weeks 14,15,16:
  Chapter 15. Large Scale Parallel Computing

** May 22 3:30 pm Final Project Due (code + report from Cray extending the "science")