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Welcome to the wiki for CSE 231 Introduction to Parallel and Concurrent Programming at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Important Dates

Midterm (EVENING) Exam

Wednesday, March 21st from 6:30-8:30 p.m in McMillan G052

Final Exam

Students in the 2:30-4:00 Section may take the exam in the earlier date (Tuesday) if they inform the instructor sufficiently in advance so that a test can be printed.

It should go without saying, but do NOT show up to the final on Tuesday out of breath with some crazy excuse about how you can't take the exam today and ask to be able to take it on Wednesday.

1:00-2:30 Section

Tuesday, May 8 2018 1:00PM - 3:00PM will be held in ??? Hall, Room ???

2:30-4:00 Section

Wednesday, May 9 2018 3:30PM - 5:30PM will be held in ??? Hall, Room ???

Studios and Assignments

These studios and assignments are organized in chronological order.

1. Assignment: Nucleobase Counting
2. Assignment: SimpleList and SimpleMap Assignment
   • Studio: Slices
   • Studio: MergeSort
   • Studio: Floodfill
   • Studio: Fibonacci
3. Assignment: Threads and Executors
   • Studio: Data Races Studio
   • Studio: Matrix Multiply
4. Assignment: MapReduce
   • Studio: Cards MapReduce Studio
   • Studio: Cholera MapReduce Studio
   • Studio: K-Mer MapReduce Studio
   • Studio: Legged Races
5. Assignment: N-Queens/Sudoku Assignment
   • Studio: Pipeline
   • Studio: DataFlow
   • Studio: Lock Ordering
6. Assignment: K-MerCounting Assignment
   • Studio: All or Nothing Locks
   • Fun: Raytrace_Scheduler

Videos

Eclipse

Habanero Content Assist

Lambda Content Assist

Async/Finish

upper lower split

integer range

Getting Around Finality

N-Way Split

Parallel N-Way Split

Recursion

Divide and Conquer

Floodfill

Futures

Futures

FAQ

Every week, we gather the most commonly asked questions from your Q&S forms and add them to our FAQ section. Please use it as a resource!

Course Setup

We will use educational videos made by Rice University as prep work for the course. Sign up for an account here.

You will also need to set up some software for the course. Refer to the articles below for help.

• Software setup
• OpenCV3
  • Homebrew
  • Chocolatey

Help with Java

• Rundown on Everything Java
  • Generics
  • Interfaces
  • Lambdas

Help with Habanero

• Habanero

Help with Eclipse

• Eclipse Tips

Math That Somehow Proves Problematic

Midpoint

Class Policies and Grading Breakdown

• Class Policies
• Office hours

Grading breakdown:

• Midterm (10%)
• Final (10%)
• Prep Q&S Forms (15%)
• Participation/Attendance (10%)
• Studios (15%)
• Assignments (40%)
  • Nucleobase Counting (weight=1; 3.08%)
  • SimpleList and SimpleMap Assignment (weight=1; 3.08%)
  • Futures and Executors (weight=2; 6.15%)
  • MapReduce (weight=4; 12.31%)
  • N-Queens/Sudoku Assignment (weight=3; 9.23%)
  • K-MerCounting_Assignment (weight=2; 6.15%)

note: assignment percentages corrected to add up to 40%