| Tentative Schedule |
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| Day |
Topic |
Readings |
Assignment |
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| Tu 1/16 | Introduction & Overview | Chap. 1+2 | ||
| Th 1/18 | Node Hardware | Chap. 3 | ||
| Tu 1/23 | Lab: Hardware Assembly | quiz 1 | ||
| Th 1/25 | Linux | Chap. 4 | ||
| Tu 1/30 | Lab: Linux Installation | quiz 2 | ||
| Th 2/1 | Networks | Chap. 5 | ||
| Tu 2/6 | Lab: Network Configuration | hw1 due | ||
| Th 2/8 | System Administration | Chap. 6 | ||
| Tu 2/13 | Lab: System Administration | hw2 due | ||
| Th 2/15 | Process-level parallelism | Chap. 7 | ||
| Tu 2/20 | Lab: Perl | |||
| Th 2/22 | MPI | Chap. 8 | hw3 due | |
| Tu 2/27 | Lab: MPI | |||
| Th 3/1 | MPI | hw4 due | ||
| Tu 3/6 | Lab: MPI | |||
| Th 3/8 | MPI | Chap. 9 | hw5 due | |
| Tu 3/13 | no class (SIAM conference) | |||
| Th 3/15 | Performance Evaluation (guest lecture by Karen Karavanic) |
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| Tu 3/20 | Lab: Performance Evaluation | quiz 3 | ||
| Th 3/22 | Performance Evaluation | |||
| Tu 4/3 | Lab: upshot | hw6 due | ||
| Th 4/5 | Performance Evaluation | |||
| Tu 4/3 | Lab: PVM | |||
| Th 4/5 | Peer-to-Peer (guest lecture by Sharad Garg) |
project decision due | ||
| Tu 4/17 | Lab: Freenet | |||
| Th 4/19 | wrap-up | |||
| Tu 4/24 | ||||
| We 5/2 | project presentations | |||