CS40: Parallel Computation, Spring 1999

This is the course homepage for Computer Science 40, Parallel Computation, Spring Semester, 1999, 10:30 - 11:50 TTh, Dennis Hall 214, Ray Ontko and Joy Williams Lind, Department of Computer Science, Earlham College.

This week's schedule.

Hand-outs

Syllabus
Ray Ontko's solutions to problems in Wilkinson/Allen
- Chapter 1
Why Publish Homework Solutions?
Laboratory Manual for our cluster
Inspection Points for our cluster
Installing Debian/GNU Linux, Part I on installing the linux kernel for our cluster
Installing Debian/GNU Linux, Part II on using dselect to install the pvm (and supporting) software for our cluster
Installing Debian Linux 2.0 for x86, by Bruce Perens, Sven Rudolph, Igor Grobman, James Treacy, Adam P. Harris
Data Files
Getting Started with PVM

Links

Sample Programs

cryptogrep.c, by Ray Ontko
cryptomaster.c, by Ben Bartlett
cryptoslave.c, by Ben Bartlett
average.c, by Joy Williams Lind
mcalc.c, by Ben Bartlett
scalc.c, by Ben Bartlett
mergesort.c, by Joy Williams Lind
CS40 - Parallel Computing, a page-full of parallel programs by Jim Garlick
Dijkstra's Algorithm program by Ryan Sackenheim
Dijkstra's Algorithm Applet program by Carla Laffra
GenJam, genetic algorithm jazz program by Al Biles

Books

PVM Book

Software

Hardware

3Com, our network interface card manufacturer. We're using four 3C905B 100Mbps fast ethernet PCI cards, and one 3C509B-TPO 10Mbps ethernet ISA card in each of the 16 nodes in our parallel computing cluster.
American Micro Devices (AMD), our CPU manufacturer. We're using the AMD K6 300Mhz processor for the nodes in our parallel computing cluster.
Western Digital, our hard disk drive manufacturer.
Build Your Own Computer Water Cooler. We're not actually doing this, but it looks like fun and has a lot of helpful information about overclocking your CPU.

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