Course Goals

At the end of this course, undergraduate students are expected to demonstrate:

• an understanding of the basic issues involved in using high performance computers.
• a knowledge of how to write parallel programs on state of the art supercomputers.

Graduate students are expected to do a more thorough study of the literature and demonstrate at the end of the course:

• knowledge of how parallel computers can be used to solve problems in their areas.
• the ability to design and analyze parallel algorithms to solve problems.
• the ability to map a problem to the best suited parallel machine, and to write parallel programs for that machine.
• an understanding of the current trends in the field of high performance computing.

The following evaluation sheet was used to grade student projects in 1994. You can expect a similar evaluation format this year too.