SE 4F03:
Design of Parallel/Distributed
Computer Systems and Computations


This page is intended for Software Engineering students taking my SE 4F03 course.

Office hours: Thursdays 3:00pm-4:00pm

Midterm: Wed February 15, 13:30-14:20. Location: HH\104

New tutorial time and place: Mondays 16:30-17:20 in ABB/136

TA Info: The TAs for 4F03 this term are: Yu Wang (wangy22 at mcmaster dot ca), and Masoud Soleimani (soleimm at mcmaster dot ca).

SE 4F03 lecture slides, and assignment + midterm solutions etc. can be found here.



MPI links:

A simple MPI tutorial. An excellent starting place.

Some info about MPI data types.

The MPICH home page. MPICH is a common implementation of MPI. There you can click on "MPI Standard 1.1" to obtain detailed information about using MPI. You can also click on "MPICH Documentation" and find the link "MPI Routines and Constants" where you can find the definitions of many MPI functions and data types.

An online MPI reference book can be found here.

MPI and linux. See the LAM home page. See also the following tutorial about LAM MPI.

Pthreads links:

PTHREADS tutorials: Tutorial 1, Tutorial 2.

Detailed pthreads documentation can be found here



Ryan Leduc
Last modified: Fri. Jan 6, 2006