Parallel/Distributed Computing and Applications

Instructor

Dr. Sanzheng Qiao, GS305, ext. 27234

qiao@cas.mcmaster.ca, http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~qiao

Schedule

Monday 3:00--4:30, Thursday 3:30--5:00, GS301

Course Objectives

Study the concepts of parallel/distributed computing, parallel algorithms and their performance, techniques of parallel programming, and applications of parallel/destributed computing.

Format

Lectures and assignments. Students are encouraged to bring projects, develop parallel programs for the projects, run on parallel/distributed systems, and give presentations discussing implementation, testing, and performance issues.

Grading

Grade is based on the correctness and thoroughness of the assignments and/or projects.

References

V. Kumar, A. Grama, A. Gupta, and G. Karypis, Introduction to Parallel Computing: Design and Analysis of Algorithms, The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, 1994. (IPC)
I. Foster, Design and Building Parallel Programs, Addison-Wesley, 1994. (DBPP)
J. Demmel, Lecture Notes for Applications of Parallel Computers. (Demmel)
P.S. Pacheco, Parallel Programming with MPI, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1997. (MPI)
A. Geist, A. Beguelin, J. Dongarra, W. Jiang, R. Manchek, and V. Sunderam, PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine--A Users' Guide and Tutorial for Networked Parallel Computing, The MIT Press, 1994.
Willliam Gropp, Ewing Lusk, Anthony Skjellum, Using MPI: Portable Parallel Programming with the Message-Passing Interface, Second Edition. The MIT Press, 1999.