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Welcome to Introduction to High Performance Computing! This class covers the very basics of parallel computing, and is intended for someone who is just becoming acquainted with the subject. In this course students will learn about concepts and terminology associated with parallel computing. The topics of parallel memory architectures and programming models are then explored. The emphasis will be on MPI programming model. These topics are followed by a discussion on several important issues related to designing parallel programs. The tutorial concludes with several examples of how to parallelize simple serial programs.

This course meets for 4 hours per week, 1 lecture hour, 3 laboratory hours.

Prerequisites: CSC 126

You will need to be able to program in C/C++ to perform the assignments in the course.

Parallel Programming: Techniques and Applications using Networked Workstations and Parallel Computers (2nd ed.) by B. Wilkinson and M. Allen, Prentice Hall. ISBN-10: 0131405632 ; ISBN-13: 978-0131405639.

There are four homework assignments. Homeworks will focus on the exercises of the textbook.

• Homework assignments will be assigned during class and also posted on the course Web-page: http://www.cs.csi.cuny.edu/~yumei/csc229/csc229Fall11.html

There will be eight lab(programming) assignments. The tasks will be writing appropriate scripts, and compiling and running the programs in the environment of CSI's cluster, evaluating the running results or solutions, and designing simple parallel programs.

• Lab assignments will be assigned during class and also posted on the course Web-page: http://www.cs.csi.cuny.edu/~yumei/csc229/csc229Fall11.html

Open lab: lab schedules can be found at:   www.csi.cuny.edu/studenthelpdesk

You can also use computers at the library. The following are your username & password for accessing computers at the library.
Username: your firstname.lastname (e.g.: john.smith).
Password: your date of birth using two digits for month, day, year without periods or spaces (e.g.: 051880) It is not working for you, see Tony in 1L204

• The exams may test on material covered only in class and on material covered only in the reading assignments.
  
  Your grade will be based approximately, as follows. These percentages are tentative and subject to change.

   25% - Homeworks
   25% - Lab Assignments
   25% - Midterm Exam 
   25% - Final
  

• Class participation is essential to succeed in this course.
• All students are expected to do the homework .
• DO NOT USE pencils to write down your solutions for the homework, project or exams; if you decide, however, to use a pencil do not complain about grading.
• Check the marks in a homework, lab assignment or an exam and report errors promptly. Make sure you report such problems to the instructor within four weeks from receipt but no later than Dec. 8, 2010. If you believe a grade you received is not representative of your effort talk to the instructor.
• Homework assignments and lab assignments are due at the start of class on their due date. If you think you won't be present in class on that due day turn the homework in earlier at instructor's office or by email.
• Each homework or each programming assignment will receive a maximum of 100 points for full credit. Homework or programming assignment submitted up to 1 week late will receive a maximum of 80 points Homework or programming assignment submitted up to 2 weeks late will receive a maximum of 60 points. NO Homework or programming assignment will be accepted later than two weeks after due date.
• Because of limited class time only a representative set of homework problems can be assigned. It is highly recommended that you do all the problems in the back of each chapter. Students who have done this in the past, have done well in the course.
• SCHOOL POLICY on Academic Integrity, Plagiarism, and Cheating - Integrity is fundamental to the academic enterprise. It is violated by such acts as borrowing or purchasing assignments (including but not limited to term papers, essays, and reports) and other written assignments, using concealed notes or crib sheets during examinations, copying the work of others and submitting it as one’s own, and misappropriating the knowledge of others. The sources from which one derives one’s ideas, statements, terms, and data, including Internet sources, must be fully and specifically acknowledged in the appropriate form; failure to do so, intentionally or unintentionally, constitutes plagiarism. Violations of academic integrity may result in a lower grade or failure in a course and in disciplinary actions with penalties such as suspension or dismissal from the College.
• The work you turn in MUST BE your own personal work, composed and written by you. No plagiarism. MY Academic Integrity Policy –Copying someone else’s computer code, even though you changed the variable names, is called plagiarism and cheating. All cheating is rewarded with a 0 on the assignment whether you are the copyer or the copyee.
• Collaboration of any kind is NOT allowed in the in-class exams (midterms, and final).

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