Homework 0 (8/29 - 9/5): Literature Study

Overview

Build a webpage describing an application of parallel computing that interests you, and survey papers or projects that explore this application. The hope is to give you ideas for your final project and to uncover some of the challenges of parallel computing. Examples of past work can be found here.

Details

Describe the application and provide references / links.

Describe the platform where the application was run.

Find peak and LINPACK performance for the platform and its rank on the TOP500 list.

Find performance of your selected application.

What ratio of sustained to peak performance is reported?

Evaluate the project/papers: How did the application scale? What were the major difficulties in obtaining good performance? What tools and algorithms were used?

Submission

Email a link to your webpage (or the webpage itself) to strive@cs.berkeley.edu.

Grading

Will be subjectively based on the perceived quality/depth of your summary. (E.g. check if you touched on most of the details above, check-plus if you did it well).