6.338J/18.337J Lecture Notes and Readings

6.338J/18.337J Lecture Notes and Readings (Spring 2002)

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Lecture 1: Introduction (2/6)

Powerpoint from lecture 1
Lecture notes (ongoing)

Q: Is Supercomputing dead? (Oct 1994) (Aug 2001)
A: There is a future for high-performance computing (Sep 98)
Beowulf
Blue Gene - Petaflop supercomputer
Biannual Top-500 Computer Lists Track Changing Environments For Scientific Computing
The Top500 Supercomputer List

Lecture 2: Scientific Computing Example (2/11)

Powerpoint from lecture 2
Notes from Chris Hill's talk on parallel computing in climate modeling
Notes from Prof. Negele's talk on QCD and its solution on Parallel Computers

Lecture 3: MPI, OpenMP, Threads (2/13)

Very good intro slides to OpenMP
MPI tutorial

Chapter 1 and 2 of MPI - The Complete Reference, Volume 1, by Snir, Otto, Huss-Lederman, Walker, Dongarra. The MIT Press.
A couple of webpages on POSIX threads: 1 and 2

MPI - Message Passing Interface
List of MPI routines

Lectures 17: Embedded Computing (4/10)

Lectures 18: Domain Decomposition (4/17)

Lecture Notes

Lectures 19: Graph Partitioning, ParMETIS (4/22)

Powerpoint notes for lecture 19

Spectral Partitioning
MATLAB Mesh Partitioning and Graph Separator Toolbox

Lectures 20: Support Vector Machines (4/24)

Powerpoint notes for lecture 20

The Earth Simulator Computer from Japan
Tony Wen's good stuff
9.520: MIT Class on Learning Theory
A Nice survey
Lots of pointers

Lectures 21: FFT and FFTW(4/29)

Lectures 22: "Will There Ever Be A Parallel MATLAB From MathWorks?" (5/1)

Lectures 23: FFTW (5/6)

PDF notes.

Lectures 24: Smart Matter: Frontiers in Computation (5/8)

Lecture 25: Student Project Presentations I (5/13)

MATLAB*P Visualization Package	Oskar Bruning, Jack Holloway, Adnan Sulejmanpasic
Tabulating values of the Riemann-Siegel Z function along the critical line	Ken Takusagawa
Parallel Real-Time AI Testing Strategy	Nathan Warshauer
Parallelizing a 2D Kolmogorov-Smirnov Statistic	Ian Chan
Real Time Parallel Radiosity	Matt Craighead
Simulation of Oxygen Ion Movement Through Oxide Materials as a Result of Temperature Change	Ashley Predith, Andrew Wilson

Lecture 26: Student Project Presentations II (5/15)

Parallel Off-Lattice Monte Carlo Simulations	Ahmed Ismail, Cynthia Lo
Parallel Clock Designer	Andrew Menard
Parallelizing the Condensation Algorithm for Visual Tracking	Amay Champaneria
Solving Very Large Finite Element Problems in Parallel	Per-Olof Persson, Sreenivasa R. Voleti
Linking Beowulf clusters across the grid	Dean Christakos

Ron Choy

Last modified: Fri Jan 3 18:41:38 GMT 2003

6.338J/18.337J Lecture Notes and Readings (Spring 2002)

Lecture 1: Introduction (2/6)

Lecture 2: Scientific Computing Example (2/11)

Lecture 3: MPI, OpenMP, Threads (2/13)

Lecture 4: Parallel Prefix (2/19)

Lecture 5: Parallel Computer Architecture (2/20)

Lecture 6 and 7: Dense Linear Algebra (2/25, 2/27)

Lecture 8: MATLAB, Parallel MATLAB, and MATLAB*P (3/4)

Lectures 9,10,11: Nbody and Multipole (3/6, 3/11, 3/13)

Lecture 12: Parallel Architecture II (3/18)

Lecture 13: How to build a Beowulf (3/20)

Lectures 14,15,16: Sparse Matrices (4/1,4/3,4/8)