CMSC 818Z (Spring 1999)
Professor:
Dr. Jeff Hollingsworth
4161 AV Williams
(40) 5-2708
Office Hours:
Tu 10:45-12:00, W 10:00-11:00
Class URL:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hollings/cs818z/s99You are expected to check the class web page on a regular basis (at least twice weekly).
Catalog Description:
Selected topics in high-performance systems, including contemporary architectures, interconnection topologies, shared memory and message-passing systems, multi-threaded kernels, latency avoidance and hiding techniques, methods for data and workload partitioning, performance profiling, debugging.
Objective:
An understanding of the issues in the design high performance computers.
Prerequisites: CMSC412, CMSC411 (or equivalent classes)
Topics Covered (in approximately the order we will cover them):
Required Course Text:
Highly Parallel Computing 2nd Edition, Almasi and Gottlieb, Benjamin/Cummings 1994.
The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure, Foster and Kesselman, Morgan-Kaufmann 1998 (recommended)
Term Projects:
The class will include term projects to investigate some aspect of parallel computing in more depth. The projects are intended to be "mini-research" projects. Part of the projects will be to define a specific project from sample ideas I supply you. The project will also include a written and oral reports to convey what you have learned.
Grading:
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Classroom participation |
10% |
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Programming Assignment |
15% |
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Midterm |
30% |
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Project |
45% |
The instructor reserves the right to fail, regardless of numeric score, students who do not submit a good faith attempt to complete all programming assignments.