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Regional Workshop on Teaching an Undergraduate Parallel Programming Course with Pattern Programming July 25, 2014 University of North Carolina Charlotte Student Union, Room 261 Tentative Schedule |
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| Barry
Wilkinson University of North Carolina Charlotte |
Clayton
Ferner University of North Carolina Wilmington |
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Materials |
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| 9:30 am - 9:45 am |
Welcome and opening remarks, outline of workshop. Introduction to pattern programming as a design approach to parallel programming, workpool, pipeline, stencil, divide and conquer, and synchronous all-to-all patterns, advantages, disadvantages, existing work, our approach. (15 minutes) |
Introduction
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| 9:45 am - 11:00 am |
Session 1: Course development, MPI, and Suzaku (75 minutes) a) Presentation (i) Outline of course development using pattern programming at UNC-Charlotte/UNC-Wilmington, assignments, experiences, software environment. (20 minutes) (ii) Brief review of MPI in context of patterns (20 minutes) (iii) Suzaku (10 minutes) b) Brief hands-on (i) Installing VirtualBox and standard software stack for workshop from flash drives (10 minutes) (ii) Using MPI and Suzaku (15 minutes) |
Course development Review of MPI Suzaku InstallingWorkshop software (from flash drives) MPI Hands-on |
| 11:00 am - 11:15 am | Break (15 minutes) | |
| 11:15 am - 12:30 pm | Session 2: Introduction to the Paraguin compiler approach (75 minutes) a) Presenters: Paraguin compiler pattern programming framework, code ... (Approx. 35 minutes) b) Participants: Guided hands-on experience. ... (Approx. 40 minutes) |
Session 2 Presentation Session 2 Hands-on notes
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| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch |
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| 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm |
Session 3: Pattern Programming with the Seeds Framework (90 minutes) a) Presenters: Seeds pattern programming framework, code for workpool applications - Monte Carlo pi, matrix addition and multiplication. (Approx. 40 minutes) b) Participants: Guided hands-on experience. Compile and execute Seeds pattern programming Monte Carlo pi, matrix addition/multiplication running on laptop. Compare with sequential code. (Approx. 45 minutes) |
Session 3 (a) presentation Session 3 (b) Hands-on notes
Software FAQs
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| 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Break (15 minutes) | |
| 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm | Session 4: Discussion - Integrating patterns into parallel programming classes and lower level CS courses (60 minutes) Discussion on the pattern programming approach. Relationship with IEEE/CS curriculum.... Future collaborations .... |
Session 4 Notes
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| 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm |
Wrap up, questionnaire, follow-up support |
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| Acknowledgements: This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under the collaborative grant #1141005/1141006, "Collaborative Research: Teaching Multicore and Many-Core Programming at a Higher Level of Abstraction." Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. |
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July 19, 2014
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