CS267 / Eng233 / IDS267 Applications of Parallel Computers

Assignment 1: Parallel Computing Practice and Experience

Due Wed, 1/29


This is a warm-up exercise to get your curiosity flowing and get a bit of course infrastructure into place.

Submission Format

You should have entered your class registration information via the Course Information Form. Let's assume that your URL is XXX. Please build a subdirectory XXX/cs267 and link the solution to this assignment in as XXX/cs267/assignment1.html.

We will be a page of links so that we can all browse the results.

Problem

Please spend some time examining work that you are interested in within your own department, out there on the web, or whereever. Pick a particular problem where parallel computing has been applied. Build a page describing briefly the application, the use of parallelism, and a frank assessment of its success, weaknesses, and challenges.