Parallel & Distributed Computing Fall 2006 Comments About Final

Course Grading Comments Approximate Weights for Course Grade Homework 40% Midterm Exam 30% Final Exam 30% Final must be given as specified in the Fall’06 Schedule of Classes Exam is from 10:15-12:30 on Monday Dec 12. Exam will be in same room as used for classes

Information to Study for Final Class slides covering test material are very important Slides contain some information not in text Probably best to study these first Assigned textbook reading material Can use these to expand your understanding of each chapter Homework assignments Only homework since midterm test are the ASC and MPI programming assignments Some ASC & MPI questions possible For example, tracing code segments References posted on our website may provide additional information about some topics above.

Primary Topics for Final Chapters 3-7 in Quinn Slides and textbook material Material tested on Ch. 7 will only include material from slides 1-31 and corresponding textual material. Includes Amdahl’s law but not Amdahl’s Effect SIMD, Vector, & MIMD Architectures presentations by Walker In past, Walker has created one question on this Slides on ATC covered final two days Ability to discuss topics covered How ATC shows importance of SIMD

Primary Topics for Final (cont.) Some classic parallel computing topics covered before midterm. For example, Basic knowledge topics and basic terminology Multicomputers, multiprocessors, UMA, NUMA, etc. Flynn’s Taxonomy Classification Data Parallel vs Control Parallel Topics tested on midterm You were supposed to study solutions to midterm questions after midterm was graded and returned.