CS 5740 -- High Performance Computing
| Prerequisites |
Consent of instructor |
| Textbooks |
| Peter Pacheco. An Introduction to Parallel Programming.
Morgan Kaufmann. |
| David Kirk and Wen-mei Hwu. Programming Massively Parallel
Processors. Morgan Kaufmann.
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A copy of class handout in PDF
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/objectives
/etc/policy
I'll expect you to be present in most of the classes. I will not be taking
attendance but if you start missing too many classes, please take responsibility
for your absence, specially when it concerns tests and homeworks. When you come
to class, you must change your cell phones to silent mode. In the tests, the
cell phones must be completely switched off.
The grade will be based on programming assignments and
two tests. All tests will be open book and open notes but no electronic devices
will be permitted. Each assignment must be meticulously documented and clearly
identify its purpose, author, and date. Tests are non-comprehensive but may
have a small overlap of material from one test to next. The distribution of
grades will be as follows:
Anyone desiring an EXC grade after October 31, 2011 must be passing the course
at that point to get EXC.
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| Test 1 |
October 13, 2011 |
| Test 2 |
December 08, 2011 |
There is no final exam. In case of class cancellation due to weather-related
or other campus emergency, the test will be held in the following class period.
For the second test, if the campus is closed on December 08, 2011, the
alternative date will be December 09, 2011, possibly in the conference room of
the department.
Old tests are available here.
/etc/misc
- Failure to hand in any assignment will result in an automatic zero for that
assignment. If some student is unable to hand in an assignment by the
deadline, he/she must discuss it with me before the deadline. I'll
encourage you to talk to other students regarding homework but you should
not collaborate to the extent that two submissions are copies of each
other. If you are found copying an assignment from another student or
internet, or if your submission has unreasonable similarity to
another submission, you get a zero for that assignment automatically. A
second offense will be reported to the University officials and students
involved will face serious consequences. I may ask you to come to my office
and explain your code to me; in case you are not able to explain the code to
my satisfaction, I'll assign you a zero in that project.
- If you need special accommodation for any reason, including disability,
please see me in the first two weeks of class. Disabled students are
accommodated as per UMSL policy. If you cannot attend a class due to a
religious holiday or a university-sanctioned event, please let me know in
advance as well. In case you are down with the flu, especially H1N1, please
stay absent from the class till you recover, and contact me via phone or
email. I'll try my best to make accommodation for you in that case.
- You have an account on the Linux cluster stovokor.dhcp.umsl.edu
(134.124.101.20) and on the TESLA-based machine gpu.umsl.edu; you
should use those for all assignments. All programs must be done in C.
Please use the class email list on MyGateway for communications.
- Example code
/etc/email
Any unsigned email and email not in plain text will go unanswered by me.
Please do not send me any attachments without talking to me first.
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