Course Information

The introductory presentation describes the motivation behind this course.

Print out the NERSC Computer Use Form, read, sign, and submit at 515 Soda (slide under door if I'm not there).

Sign up for a Millennium account (PI: Jim Demmel (demmel@cs.berkeley.edu), Description of Research: CS 267).

A textbook, "The Sourcebook of Parallel Computing", is available

• Through Copy Central down Hearst from Euclid (call 849-9600 and request a copy if one is not currently available) and

• On CD (come to 515 Soda to request a copy) in a series of JPEGS (copyright material, do not make copies, please).
  Possible viewing software requires JAI and SDK 1.3 or later
     - example syntax: java -classpath book.jar book.Book D:/book/ 550 730 0.60 -120 -140
      - help provided if you run without options
      - page up/down to go through pages
      - arrow up/down/left/right to jump on current page
      - slide paper - hold mouse button down and drag mouse
      - zoom in/out - hold mouse button down while control button and drag mouse

Computer accounts will be given for NERSC (seaborg.nersc.gov) and Millennium ({sonoma,napa}.millennium.berkeley.edu) machines. Call NERSC at 510-486-8612 or 1-800-66-NERSC to find your password to seaborg.nersc.gov and NIM and HPSS. If you have seaborg related problems, feel free to contact/email NERSC as described in NERSC essentials

Course grading is described here.

A course bboard (ucb.class.cs267) is available (via NNTP server usenet.berkeley.edu), but important information will be structured on the course webpage. For info on accessing bboards, go here.

Register for SC2002 in Baltimore, November 16-22 or volunteer for parallel MATLAB project.