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Title: Parallel


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Parallel Distributed ComputingFall 2004
  • Comments About Final

2
Course Grading Comments
  • Approximate Weights for Course Grade
  • Homework 40
  • Midterm Exam 30
  • Final Exam 30
  • Final will be given as specified in the Fall04
    Schedule of Classes
  • Exam is from 1015-1230 on Friday Dec., 17
  • Time is also posted on course website.

3
Information to Study for Final
  • Class slides covering test material are very
    important
  • Assigned textbook reading of material to be
    tested
  • Provides additional information for many topics
  • Includes information about some topics not on
    slides
  • Remember slides also contain information not in
    text
  • Handouts (e.g., research papers) provide more
    information about topics covered on slides
  • Provides in-depth information for some slide
    topics
  • Unless instructed otherwise, topics in handouts
    that are not mentioned on slides are optional
    reading
  • Homework assignments often used to create some
    related questions on test.

4
Primary Topics Covered for Final
  • SIMD/MASC/ASC Models Study Guide
  • Slides from this set, but ignore 44-51
  • Handouts provide additional information about
    topics covered on slides
  • Homework assignments
  • Timings Study Guide
  • This is a continuation of MASC/ASC material
  • Slides, but focus on a general understanding
  • Will not test more technical aspects, such as
    reproduction of circuits

5
Primary Topics for Final (Cont 2/4)
  • ASC and MultiC Study Guide
  • Slides presentations
  • Homework assigned
  • Ability to interpret coded segments correctly
  • Fortran90 plus HPF Study Guide
  • General explanation or discussion questions are
    most likely way to test
  • No coding segments for interpretation will be
    included.

6
Primary Topics for Final (Cont 3/4)
  • MIMD Architecture
  • Presentation Slides
  • Chapter 2 in Quinn (Sections 2.4 and 2.5)
  • Homework assigned
  • OpenMP
  • Presentation Slides for Ch. 17 and Ch18
  • Chapter 17 and 18 in Quinn
  • Homework assignments
  • Understand Coded segments
  • Ability to use appropriate shared memory
    statements.

7
Primary Topics for Final (Cont 4/4)
  • Importance of SIMD
  • Presentation Slides 1-33
  • Ability to discuss issues covered

8
Classic Parallel Computing Topics Covered Before
Midterm for Final
  • Flynns Taxonomy Classification
  • See Midterm Summary Slides
  • Data Parallel vs Control Parallel
  • See Midterm Summary Slides
  • Linear Speedup
  • Why is linear speedup usually optimal
  • Why is superlinear speedup sometimes possible
  • Speedup, cost, efficiency
  • Amdahls Law
  • Statement and explanation of Law
  • Why not the disaster orginally thought for
    parallelism
  • See midterm summary slides
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