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To prepare for this case study, students do background reading on landslides and rock avalanches and read the introductory portion of Hermanns and Strecker's 1999 article on rock avalanches in Argentina. In class, students receive data (assembled from figures in the article) on bedrock geology and physiography, as well as stereonets showing orientations of prominent joint sets, bedding, and foliations in the bedrock. Their task is to answer the question of why gigantic rock avalanches occur is some places but not others in this part of Argentina. The activity gives students practice in interpreting geologic maps, using stereonets, and peer teaching. Each student receives one of four possible data sets and must ultimately explain his/her analysis to others. The activity also connects structural geology to another geoscience discipline.
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Languages Supported Scheme Python C++ C Java Any Relevant Parallel Computing Concepts Data Parallelism Task Parallelism Message Passing Shared Memory Distributed Recommended Teaching Level Introductory Intermediate Advanced Any Possible Course Use Introduction to Computer Science Hardware Design Software Design Algorithm Design Parallel Computing Systems Programming Languages
Description about TCPP elements, their purpose, instructions.
Classes: Taxonomy Taxonomy Classes: Data vs. Control Parallelism Superscalar (ILP) SIMD/Vector (e.g., SSE, Cray) Pipelines - Data and control hazards Pipelines - OoO execution Pipelines - Single vs. Multicycle Streams (e.g., GPU) Dataflow MIMD Simultaneous Multi-Threading, Hyper-Threading Highly Multithreaded (e.g., MTA) Multicore Heterogeneous (e.g., Cell) Other Classes: Shared vs. Distributed Memory SMP - Buses NUMA/Shared Memory - Directory-based CC-NUMA NUMA/Shared Memory - CC-NUMA Message Passing - Bandwidth Message Passing - Circuit switching Message Passing - Diameter Message Passing - Latency Message Passing - Routing Message Passing - Packet Switching Message Passing - Topologies Other Memory Hierarchy Cache organization Atomicity Consistency Coherence False Sharing Impact on Software Floating Point Representation Range Precision Rounding Issues Error Propogation 754 Standard Performance Metrics Cycles per Instruction (CPI) Benchmark - Spec Mark Benchmark - Bandwidth Peak Performance MIPS/FLOPS Sustained Performance LinPack
Parallel Programming Paradigms: By The Target Machine Model SIMD Shared memory Distributed memory Client Server Hybrid Parallel Programming Paradigms: By The Control Statements Task/thread spawning SPMD Data Parallel Parallel Loop Parallel Programming Notations: Array Languages Microprocessor Vector Extensions Fortran 90/C++ Array Extensions Other Parallel Programming Notations: Shared Memory Notations Language Extensions Compiler Directives/Pragmas Libraries Other Parallel Programming Notations: SPMD Notations SPMD Notations Parallel Programming Notations: Functional/Logical Languages Functional/Logical Languages Semantics and Corrections Issues Tasks and Threads Synchronization Concurrency Defects Tools to Detect Concurrency Defects Performance Issues Computation Data Performance Monitoring Performance Metrics
Parallel and Distributed Models and Completxity: Costs of Computation Asymptotics Time Space Speedup Other Parallel and Distributed Models and Completxity: Cost Reduction Space Compression, etc. Other Parallel and Distributed Models and Completxity: Cost Tradeoffs Time vs. Space Power vs. Time Other Parallel and Distributed Models and Completxity: Scalability in Algorithms and Architectures Scalability in Algorithms and Architectures Parallel and Distributed Models and Completxity: Notations from Complexity Theory PRAM BSP/CILK Simulation/emulation P-Completeness #P=Completeness Cellular Automata Other Parallel and Distributed Models and Completxity: Notations From Scheduling Dependencies Task Graphs Work (Make) Span Other Algorithmic Paradigms Divide & Conquer Recursion Scan (Parallel Prefix) Reduction (Map-Reduce) Stencil-based Iteration "Oblivious" Algorithms Blocking Striping "Out-of-core" Algorithms Series-Parallel Composition Graph Embedding as an Algorithmic Tool Algorithmic Problems Communication: Broadcast Communication: Multicast Communication: Scatter/Gather Communication: Gossip Communication: Other Asynchrony Synchronization Sorting Selection Graph Algorithms: Sort Graph Algorithms: Path Selection Graph Algorithms: Other Convolutions Matrix Computations Termination Detection Leader Election/Symmetry Breaking Specialized Computations
High-level Themes Why and What is Parallel/Distributed Computing? Concurrency Topics Concurrency Non-Determinism Power Locality Current/Hot/Advanced Topics Cluster Cloud/Grid P2P Fault Tolerance Security in Distributed System Distributed Transactions Web Search Social Networking/Context Collaborative Computing Performance Modeling Web Services Pervasive Computing Mobile Computing
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