CSC 410 Notes
Tuesday October 24, 2006

Topics:

• Project reports
• Update on APO assignment
• Determine if we will have a test (before the end of class)

Program demos

• Carl & Justin
• Andrew, Mark, Matthew, Eric

Project (Assign4) Grading

• 20% Preliminary presentation
  • 50% presentation
  • 25% responses to questions
  • 25% questions asked to other group
• 40% Program
  • Solves the problem
  • Sequential and parallel
• 20% Final presentation
  • 50% presentation
  • 25% responses to questions
  • 25% questions asked to other group
• 20% Written report
  • Description of project
  • Description of algorithm
  • Strategy to take advantage of parallel opportunities
  • Careful analysis of timing results

Evaluate & measure program performance

• From your homework assignment so far
  • Can you do timing
  • Can you measure the amount of time on overhead: process/thread creation, synchronization, waiting, etc.
  • Can you measure the amount of work done by each process & how long it took?
  • Can you compute efficiency, speed-up, etc.?