COSC 273: Parallel and Distributed Computing

Welcome to the Spring 2021 edition of COSC 273: Parallel and Distributed Computing! Here, you will find links to course materials and assignments. Please start by reading the course syllabus.

• Course Syllabus
• Accountability Group Assignments
• Office Hours Signup

Notes

Week 01 (Feb. 15–19)

• Multithreading
• Monte Carlo Simulation

Week 02 (Feb. 22–26)

• Partially Ordered Sets and Scheduling
• AMP Chapter 01, Sections 1–2, 4, 6 (by Wednesday)
• AMP Chapter 02, Sections 1–4, 7, skim 9 (by Friday)

Slides

Lectures

• Lecture 01: Introduction and Motivation
• Lecture 02: Limitations of Parallelism and Distributed Control
• Lecture 03: Mutual Exclusion I
• Lecture 04: Mutual Exclusion II

Labs

• Lab 01
• Lab 02

Labs

• Lab 01: Estimating Pi (Due 2/26/21)
• Lab 02: Computing Shortcuts (Due 3/12/21)
• Lab 03 (Due 3/26/21)
• Lab 04 (Due 4/9/21)
• Lab 05 (Due 4/23/21)
• Lab 06 (Due 5/7/21)

Assignments

• Assignment 01 (Due 3/5/21)
• Assignment 02 (Due 3/19/21)
• Assignment 03 (Due 4/2/21)
• Assignment 04 (Due 4/16/21)
• Assignment 05 (Due 4/30/21)
• Assignment 06 (Due 5/14/21)

Project

• Project Proposal (Due: TBA)
• Proof of Concept (Due: TBA)
• Final Project (Due: TBA)