Course Description

Prerequisites

CS360

Required Textbook

• Parallel Programming in C with MPI and OpenMP, by Michael J. Quinn, out of print
• An introduction to parallel programming, by Peter S. Pacheco
• Using MPI, Third Edition, by William Gropp, Ewing Lusk and Anthony Skjellum
• Using Advanced MPI Modern Features of the Message-Passing Interface, by William Gropp, Torsten Hoefler, Rajeev Thakur and Ewing Lusk
• Programming Massively Parallel Processors, Third Edition: A Hands-on Approach, by David B. Kirk and Wen-mei W. Hwu

Schedule

Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 11:15AM until 12:05PM, Min Kao 524

Grading

• Exam 1 — 20%
• Exam 2 (final) — 30%
• Homework — 30%
• Project — 20%

Suggested tools

• We will use Piazza to benefit from the community-driven approach to questions and answers, where the shared students knowledge is beneficial to all and the instructor simply approve or improve an answer. Each student is encourage to register and join the class on Piazza. For more information about Piazza capabilities use this and this.
• Homework will be stored and returned using GitHub Classroom. The git flow is described on the document of the first lecture and will be enforced through the entire semester. Each student is expected to have a github id, or to create one at Github, and to strictly follow the requirements.
• For everything else we will rely on the UTK provided service, Canvas.
• For the performance sensitive part of the homework it is necessary to have access to computational resources more signficant than a personal laptop. Such access can be obtained either using UTK Hydra cluster or NICS.

Lecture Notes

Homework

• Programming projects based on lectures
• Grading
• Correctness
• "Smoke test"
• Correct result
• Stress test for parallelism and/or concurrency issues
• Performance: Nice but optional (Unless specifically requested)

Exams

Project

Instructors

Links

• COSC462 in 2016 from George Bosilca and Piotr Luszczek
• COSC462 in 2015 by Micah Beck
• COSC462 in 2015 from George Bosilca