Pic110 spring 1997 information

This file is http://www.math.ucla.edu/~eijkhout/pic110/index.html.


Your instructor is

Victor Eijkhout
office: MS 7620
hours: MWF 3-4pm
campus phone: 825 2173
email: eijkhout@math.ucla.edu
home page: http://www.math.ucla.edu/~eijkhout

The TA is

Ami Fischman
email: fischman@math.ucla.edu
ta-related page: http://www.math.ucla.edu/~fischman/ta

The class will mostly follow the book

Introduction to Parallel Computing
Kumar et al
Benjamin Cummings, Redwood City, 1994

Notes and supplementary reading material can be found on http://www.math.ucla.edu/~eijkhout/pic110/notes.html.

The midterm exam will be during regular class hours on the Wednesday of the sixth week.

The listing from the online course catalogue:

   110 CONCURRNT COMPUTATN    -----------  LEC 1   MWF      2:00- 2:50P 
       MS 5128                EIJKHOUT, V.         5.0 units 
       6 enrolled (max 30)    0 on wait list (max 50)
       Exam code: 7 (TUESDAY, 06-10-1997, 03:00P - 06:00P)

       CONCURRNT COMPUTATN    157-350-201  DIS 1A  T        2:00- 2:50P 
       MS 5128                FISCHMAN, A.          
       6 enrolled (max 30)    0 on wait list (max 50)

Homework is due on wednesday:

In the calculation of the final grade, the two lowest homework grades will be ignored. Thus, you can miss homework twice with no penalty.

Homework assigned:

  1. Week of 31 Mar: 1.1, 1.4, 2.3, 2.4.
  2. Week of 7 April: MPI Programming exercise 1.
  3. Week of 14 april: 2.19, 3.32 and 3.33 (only for broadcast; not personalised communication),
  4. Week of 21 April: MPI Programming exercise 0.
  5. Week of 28 April: 4.18, 5.12, and MPI Programming exercise 2.
  6. Week of 5 May: 5.19, 6.9, 6.17.
  7. Week of 12 May: takehome midterm.
  8. Week of 19 May: MPI Programming exercise 3.
  9. Week of 26 May: 7.3, 8.4b.