Instructor: Phil Prins

Phone:  (206) 281-2738 (office)
            (360) 568-9337 (home)

Email: pprins@spu.edu

Fax: (360) 568-9167 

Office Hours: MW 1:30 - 2:30; F 12:30 - 1:30; or by appointment

Office: OMH 239

Meeting Times: MWF 9:30 - 10:50 AM in OMH 215

Text: Parallel Programming: Techniques and Applications Using Networked Workstations and Parallel Computers; Second Edition by Barry Wilkinson and Michael Allen

Important Dates:   ??          Midterm exam (take-home; will be due ??)
                               June 4                  Final Project/Paper presentation (8:00 - 10:00 AM)

Assignments and Projects: to be filled in yet

You are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to help each other with your individual assignments and papers.  On the team projects, you are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to be a good team member and to work together as a group.

Grading:

You will have assignments, projects, and an exam in this class.  The assignments will be worth 15% of your grade, the exam another 15%, and the projects will be worth 70%.

   90% - 100% A
   80% - ~90% B
   70% - ~80% C
   60% - ~70% D
              <60% E

About this class:

    The objectives of this class are:

• to study more advanced issues of computer organization
• to gain an overview of high-performance computer architecture
• to discuss trends in architecture
• to examine current state-of-the-art architectures
• to learn parallel programming

Relationship to SPU and departmental goals and objectives