Projects

Project 1: Will start first, after we have seen some more python threads
Project 2: Will deal with the Xgrid
Project 3: Will deal with Hadoop
Project 4 has officially started on 1/26/10! Find its shared wiki page here!

Python Threads

Week	Topics	Reading
Week 1 1/25	Tuesday Introduce Syllabus Interrupts Thursday The PogoPlug... The iPad... Python Review NQueens.py: a python program to find the first solution for N queens on an NxN board. classExample1.py classExample2.py classExample3.py serialPing.py Python Threads threadedPing.py : a threaded solution to the serial ping program ThreadedNQueens.py : a threaded solution to the N-Queens program Lecture Notes	Read What is a Thread? [1] What is a Processes? [2] Reference material for when we start programming Python.org's page on Thread Objects. It's the reference, but is not always crystal clear... Linux Gazette Article on Python Threads. Good overall introduction. Norm Matloff's introduction to Python Threads. More details, less easy to follow. For Discussion next Tuesday read the paper by Asanovic K. et al, The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View from Berkeley.
Week 2 2/1	Tuesday discussion (prepare a 1-page summary) of the paper by Asanovic K. et al, The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View from Berkeley, Dec. 2006. (cached copy) Thursday Lecture Notes
Week 3 2/8	Tuesday Thursday Lecture Notes
Week 4 2/15	Tuesday Thursday Lecture Notes

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