Fall 1996 Parallel and Distributed Processing (CMSC 683/691a)

Course Information

What's new?

Dec 13: As announced in class on Tuesday, if your dataflow interpreter works correctly with a single "thread" (i.e., if you don't use the m_fork() threads at all) and everything else is ok (so don't forget your documentation!), this is worth 80 points. Thus, since 85% and up is an "A", if your other scores were in the 90's, you don't really need to get the dataflow interpreter to work with threads to get an "A" in the class.

Dec 9: The spec's for project 4 have been revised slightly; in particular the DFL language was simplified.

Dec 5: Project 4, a dataflow interpreter, is now available. If you want, you can do an alternate project with n-grams; this will be discussed in class.

What's old?

Nov 17: Info about our local mpi installation is available.

Nov 14: Project 3 has been assigned.

Nov 14: The first problem set has been assigned.

Oct 29: Sample getotp() and image scaling code for the n-body project is available.

Oct 15: Project 2 has been assigned.

Sept 26: Project 1 has been assigned.

Sept 26: Some examples of mpl code are available.

Sept 20: Some information about computer accounts is available.

Sept 11: We finally have an "official" new room: ACIV 011.

Sept 3: Welcome to Parallel and Distributed Processing! Most course information--including the syllabus, assorted handouts, and project assignments--will be made available on these web pages.