CS 194-2: Parallel Programming

• Links
• Logistics
• Test preparation
• Homeworks
• Code and utilities
• Tutorials

Links

• David Kirk's course home page (GPU / CUDA programming)
• OpenMP tutorial (slides from discussion; MS PowerPoint format)
• Prof. Yelick's course home page
• Prof. Yelick's home page
• Mark's home page

Test preparation

Brian wrote up a list of study questions (MS Word or PDF) to help you get ready for the first quiz/test. We handed it out at the discussion section on Wednesday, 10 October. The version posted is slightly different -- we expanded the questions a bit.

Code and utilities

Scripts

• PBS script skeleton for submitting jobs on the PSI batch cluster

Libraries

• C timer: Git archive (most recent) or gzip'd tarball
• Java "native" timer: Git archive (most recent) or gzip'd tarball

Tutorials

• Using computing resources. This explains how to login, set up your environment, and run jobs on the batch scheduler.
• Cygwin installation instructions, so you can work from home on your Windows machine.
• Installing utility libraries in your cluster home directory. These are libraries that we write to help you with your homeworks.
• "Everyday GIT with 20 Commands or So." Git is a revision control system that we use for releasing code and libraries.
• Homework 1 tutorials:
  • Parallel random number generation
  • Computing the standard deviation (erratum: in Equations 2 and 3 on the first page, the quantity in parentheses should be squared)