CS 395T: Parallel Techniques for Numerical Algorithms

What's new

• Examples for using PLAPACK on the various machines

• PLAPACK related slides

• PLAPACK Home Page

• Instructions on using the T3E and SP2

• Book: USING MPI should be available from the Coop by the end of the week. If not, order it directly from The MIT Press.

• SO THAT'S HOW THAT TRIANGULAR MATRIX-MATRIX MULTIPLY WORKS!

• We now have a newsgroup: utexas.class.cs395t-rvdg

• project assignments

• Link to notes for the undergraduate version of the class

• Interesting Materials

• General Information
• Instructor
• Teaching Assistant
• Book
• Notes
• Syllabus
• Programming
• Homework
• Tests
• Grading
• Schedule
• Students

Step 1: Please sign the class registry

• Spring 1997
• Unique Number: 47405
• Time: MWF 3:30pm-5pm
• Place: GAR 201

• Robert A. van de Geijn
  Associate Professor of Computer Sciences
• Office: Taylor 4.115C
• Phone: 471-9720
• Home: 251-8301
  (please, do not call me at home except for emergencies)
• e-mail: rvdg@cs.utexas.edu
• URL: //www.cs.utexas.edu/users/rvdg
• Office Hours:
  • T 3-4
  • M 1:30-3:30

• Robert van de Geijn, Using PLAPACK -- Parallel Linear Algebra Package , The MIT Press, 1997.
• Robert van de Geijn, David Payne, Lance Shuler, and Jerrell Watts, A Streetguide to Collective Communication and its Application , manuscript in preparation.
• W. Gropp, E. Lusk, and A. Skjellum, Using MPI , The MIT Press, 1994.
• Other notes to be posted

• Review of linear algebra operations
• High performance implemention of linear algebra operations on sequential architectures
• Implementing linear algebra operations using PLAPACK
• Collective communication on message passing architectures
• Analysing parallel linear algebra algorithms
• Further optimizing of parallel linear algebra operations
• Other topics

Grading

• 50% -- Team project
• 30% -- Final individual project
• 20% -- Class participation

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