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**Introduction to '''Latex'''
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*** [http://cs.smith.edu/dftwiki/index.php/Tutorial:_Writing_a_Latex_paper_with_ShareLatex.com Tutorial #1] on Latex and ShareLatex
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* [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/concurrency/procthread.html Coverage (with examples) of Processes and Threads], provided by Oracle
 
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* Definition of an [http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~jniu/teaching/csc33200/files/0910-ComputerSystemOverview02.pdf interrupt]
 
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* References on Latex
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** [http://latex-project.org/guides/ The Latex Project]
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** [http://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf A not-so-short Introduction to Latex] (pdf)
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** [http://www.tug.org/interest.html The TeX User Group]
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** [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX WikiBooks guide to Latex]
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** [http://www-biblio.physik.uni-bonn.de/info/downloads/thesis_guide.pdf Users Guide to Writing a Thesis in a Physics/Astronomy Institute of the University of Bonn]
 
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Revision as of 14:13, 4 September 2013

--D. Thiebaut (talk) 11:15, 9 August 2013 (EDT)




Main Page|Syllabus|Links & Resources | PIAZZA



Weekly Schedule

Week Topics Reading
Week 1
9/3
  • Tuesday
    • Syllabus
    • Introduction to final project
      • Approach
      • Programming
      • Testing
      • ==> paper (see 2011 paper for example).
    • Parallelism: going to the source: Interrupts!
      • 8086 type of interrupts (simplified)
      • Interrupt Vector
      • Interrupt Priority
      • Context Switch
      • Stack and Stack Frame
      • Global and Local Variables
    • What is a process?
    • What is a thread?


  • Thursday
    • Introducction to a graph we'll use all throughout the semester. The idea of threads
    Thread 1 ----------------------|====|-------------------------> time

    Thread 2 ------------|====|-----------------------------------> time


    • Multithreaded programming.
      • Computing Pi
      • Mini Lab 1
      • Regroup and gather statistics on the different machines in the classroom
      • Introduction to measuring performance. Comparing execution times.
      • Introduction to Speedup( N ), where N is the number of threads, or the number of processors.
      • Amdahl's Law
AmdahlsLaw.jpg
      • Processor Utilization
ParallelProcessorUtilizationDefinition.gif


ParallelProcessorUtilizationGraph.gif


    • Introduction to Latex

 


Week 2
9/10
  • Tuesday
  • Thursday
    • Discussion of A View of Cloud Computing from Berkeley. Prepare a 1- to 2-page summary of the paper in Latex. Hand-in the summary in class. No summaries will be accepted after class.

 


Week 3
9/17
  • Tuesday: Guided tour by Maggie Lind at the SCMA. Meeting in entrance of museum.
  • Thursday

Week 4
9/24
  • Tuesday: Tentative Guest Lecture by Tim Draper
  • Thursday

 

Week 5
10/1
  • Tuesday
  • Thursday

Week 6
10/8
  • Tuesday
  • Thursday

 

Week 7
10/15
  • Tuesday: Fall Break
  • Thursday

Week 8
10/22
  • Tuesday
  • Thursday

 

Week 9
10/29
  • Tuesday
  • Thursday

Week 10
11/5
  • Tuesday: Otelia Cromwell Day
  • Thursday

 

Week 11
11/12
  • Tuesday
  • Thursday

Week 12
11/19
  • Tuesday: Guest Lecture (DT @ INFOCOMP 2013)
  • Thursday: Tentative guest lecture: Nick Howe on CUDA and GPUs

 

Week 13
11/26
  • Tuesday
  • Thursday: Thanksgiving Break

Week 14
12/3
  • Tuesday
  • Thursday

 

Week 15
12/10
  • Tuesday: Last Day of Class



Links and Resources


On-Line Resources


Classics



Papers