This schedule is designed to give you an overview of the topics involved with the program and of the activities planned. This is a living document and will be updated throughout the program. Please see the Program Details for more explanations regarding the program and the schedule.
The chapter numbers and their titles refer to the book Peter S. Pacheco, Parallel Programming with MPI, Morgan Kaufmann, 1997.
Week 1: 06/19/11-06/25/11
| Day | Time | Main topic | Location |
| Sunday, 06/19/11 | 09:00-04:00 | Move-in | |
| 05:00-07:00 | Welcome meeting | MP 422 | |
| Monday, 06/20/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social with breakfast | MP 422 |
| 09:30-10:45 | Orientation | MP 401 | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Walking tour of campus | Campus | |
| 12:00-01:30 | Joint lunch with all participants | Skylight Room | |
| 01:30-02:45 | Class 1: Overview and motivation for parallel computing | MP 401 | |
| presented by Dr. Gobbert | |||
| 03:00-04:00 | Lab 1: Homework 1 on parallel computing: Linux on tara and sample codes | MP 412 | |
| facilitated by David Trott, Zana Coulibaly, and Andrew Raim | |||
| 05:30-06:30 | Dinner break | ||
| 06:30-07:45 | Class 2: Statistics 1: R overview, Sampling | MP 401 | |
| presented by April Albertine | |||
| Sampling; Estimation and Uncertainty | |||
| 08:00-09:00 | Lab 2: Homework 2 on statistics: Monte Carlo Estimation with R | MP 412 | |
| facilitated by April Albertine, Andrew Raim, and Dr. Neerchal | |||
| Tuesday, 06/21/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-10:45 | Class 3: Chapter 3: Greetings! | MP 401 | |
| presented by Dr. Gobbert | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Lab 3: Format conversions, command-line arguments, and error check | ||
| facilitated by David Trott | MP 412 | ||
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:30-02:45 | Class 4: Chapter 4: An Application: Numerical Integration | MP 401 | |
| presented by Dr. Gobbert | |||
| 03:00-04:00 | Lab 4: Homework 3 on parallel computing: trapezoidal rule | MP 412, | |
| facilitated by David Trott, Andrew Raim, and Zana Coulibaly | |||
| 05:30-06:30 | Dinner break | ||
| 06:30-07:45 | Class 5: Statistics 2: Monte Carlo Integration | MP 401 | |
| presented by April Albertine | |||
| 08:00-09:00 | Lab 5: Homework 4 on statistics: Importance Sampling, SNOW | MP 412 | |
| facilitated by April Albertine, Andrew Raim and Dr. Neechal | |||
| Wednesday, 06/22/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-10:45 | Class 6: Chapter 5: Collective Communication | MP 401 | |
| presented by Dr. Gobbert | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Lab 6: header files and make utility | MP 412 | |
| facilitated by David Trott | |||
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:30-02:45 | Class 7: Chapter 5: Collective Communication | MP 401 | |
| presented by Dr. Gobbert | |||
| 03:00-04:00 | Lab 7: Homework 5 on parallel computing: dot and matrix products | MP 412 | |
| facilitated by David Trott, Andrew Raim, and Zana Coulibaly | |||
| 05:30-06:30 | Dinner break | ||
| 06:30-07:45 | Class 8: Statistics 3: Statistical Methods in Parallel Computing | ||
| presented by April Albertine | |||
| 08:00-09:00 | Lab 8: Homework 6 on statistics: Regression, MLE, SNOW | MP 412 | |
| facilitated by April Albertine, Andrew Raim and Dr. Neechal | |||
| Thursday, 06/23/11 | 09:00-12:00 | GRE preparation course | UC 115D |
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 02:00-04:30 | Presentations by project clients | MP 401 | |
| 05:30-07:30 | Professional development workshop with dinner | ||
| Friday, 06/24/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-10:45 | Class 9: Chapter 9: Debugging Your Program | MP 401 | |
| presented by Dr. Gobbert | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Lab 9: Serial coding for Homework 7: power method | MP 412 | |
| facilitated by David Trott and Zana Coulibaly | |||
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:30-02:45 | Class 10: Chapters 11: Performance | MP 401 | |
| presented by Dr. Gobbert | |||
| 03:00-04:00 | Lab 10: Homework 7 on parallel computing: power method | MP 412 | |
| facilitated by David Trott and Andrew Raim | |||
| Saturday, 06/25/11 | Complete homework |
Week 2: 06/26/11-07/02/11
| Day | Time | Main topic | Location |
| Sunday, 06/26/11 | Complete homework | ||
| Monday, 06/27/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-10:45 | Class 11: MATLAB 1: Programming in MATLAB | MP 401 | |
| presented by Dr. Gobbert | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Lab 11: MATLAB code for Poisson equation using CG | MP 412 | |
| facilitated by David Trott | |||
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:30-02:45 | Class 12: Chapter 10: Design and Coding of Parallel Programs (CG method) | MP 401 | |
| presented by Dr. Gobbert | |||
| 03:00-04:00 | Lab 12: Homework 8: serial code for CG method | MP 412 | |
| facilitated by David Trott and Zana Coulibaly | |||
| 05:30-06:30 | Dinner break | ||
| 06:30-07:45 | Class 13: Statistics 4: Random Walk Processes | MP 401 | |
| presented by Dr. Neerchal | |||
| 08:00-09:00 | Lab 13: Homework 9 on statistics: Simulation excercise in SNOW | MP 412 | |
| facilitated by April Albertine, Andrew Raim, and Dr. Neerchal | |||
| Tuesday, 06/28/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-10:45 | Class 14: MATLAB 2: Advanced MATLAB | MP 401 | |
| presented by Dr. Gobbert | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Lab 14: Studies and post-processing of MATLAB results | MP 412 | |
| facilitated by David Trott | |||
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:30-02:45 | Class 15: Chapter 13: Advanced Point-to-Point Communication | MP 401 | |
| presented by Dr. Gobbert | |||
| 03:00-04:00 | Lab 15: Homework 10 on parallel computing: code for CG method | MP 412 | |
| facilitated by David Trott | |||
| 05:30-06:30 | Dinner break | ||
| 06:30-07:45 | Class 16: Statistics 5: Regression Methods | MP 401 | |
| presented by April Albertine | |||
| 08:00-09:00 | Lab 16: Homework 11 on statistics: Serial and Parallel PRESS residual computation | MP 412 | |
| facilitated by April Albertine, Andrew Raim, and Dr. Neerchal | |||
| Wednesday, 06/29/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-10:45 | Class 17: MATLAB 3: Graphics in MATLAB | MP 401 | |
| presented by Dr. Gobbert | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Lab 17: Powerful plots in MATLAB | MP 412 | |
| facilitated by David Trott | |||
| 12:00-01:00 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:00-01:30 | Presentations by project client | MP 401 | |
| 01:30-02:45 | Class 18: Chapter 13: Advanced Point-to-Point Communication | MP 401 | |
| presented by Dr. Gobbert | |||
| 03:00-04:00 | Lab 18: Homework 12 on parallel computing: studies for CG method | MP 412 | |
| facilitated by David Trott | |||
| Thursday, 06/30/11 | 09:00-12:00 | GRE preparation course | SOND 101 |
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 02:00-04:30 | Presentations by project clients | MP 401 | |
| 05:30-07:30 | Professional development workshop with dinner | ||
| Friday, 07/01/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-12:00 | Project selection | MP 401 | |
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:30-02:45 | Class 19: LaTeX and BibTeX for writing reports | MP 401 | |
| presented by Dr. Gobbert | |||
| 03:00-04:00 | Lab 19: Homework 13: Report on studies for CG method | MP 412 | |
| facilitated by David Trott | |||
| Saturday, 07/02/11 | Complete homework |
Week 3: 07/03/11-07/09/11
| Day | Time | Main topic | Location |
| Sunday, 07/03/11 | Project work | ||
| Monday, 07/04/11 | Independence Day Holiday | ||
| Tuesday, 07/05/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-10:45 | Class 20: Introduction to BLAS, LAPACK, ACML | MP 401 | |
| presented by Dr. Gobbert | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Lab 20: Homework 14: performance comparison of BLAS1, BLAS2, BLAS3 | MP 412 | |
| facilitated by David Trott | |||
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:30-05:00 | Project work | MP 412 | |
| Wednesday, 07/06/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-10:45 | Class 21: Chapter 7: Communicators and Topologies | MP 401 | |
| presented by Dr. Gobbert | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Lab 21: Homework 15 on parallel computing: use of BLAS in utility routines | MP 412 | |
| facilitated by David Trott | |||
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:30-05:00 | Project work | MP 412 | |
| Thursday, 07/07/11 | 09:00-12:00 | GRE preparation course | SOND 101 |
| 12:00-01:00 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:00-04:30 | Project work: proposal to client | MP 422 | |
| 04:30-05:30 | Professional development workshop | MP 401 | |
| 05:30-07:30 | Joint dinner | ||
| Friday, 07/08/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social and Tour of tara | MP 422 |
| 09:30-10:45 | Class 22: Chapter 10: Design and Coding of Parallel Programs (Sorting) | MP 401 | |
| presented by Dr. Gobbert | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Project work | MP 412 | |
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:30-05:00 | Project work | MP 412 | |
| Saturday, 07/09/11 | Project work |
Week 4: 07/10/11-07/16/11
| Day | Time | Main topic | Location |
| Sunday, 07/10/11 | Project work | MP 412 | |
| Monday, 07/11/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-10:45 | Class 23: Chapter 6: Grouping Data for Communication | MP 401 | |
| presented by Dr. Gobbert | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Project work | MP 412 | |
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:30-05:00 | Project work | MP 412 | |
| Tuesday, 07/12/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-10:45 | Class 24: Chapter 2: An Overview of Parallel Computing | MP 401 | |
| presented by Dr. Gobbert | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Project work | MP 412 | |
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:30-05:00 | Project work | MP 412 | |
| Wednesday, 07/13/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-10:45 | Class 25: IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic | MP 401 | |
| presented by Dr. Gobbert | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Project work | MP 412 | |
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:30-05:00 | Project work | MP 412 | |
| Thursday, 07/14/11 | 09:00-12:00 | GRE preparation course | SOND 101 |
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 04:00-05:00 | Professional development workshop | MP 401 | |
| 05:30-07:00 | Joint dinner | ||
| Friday, 07/15/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-10:45 | Class 26: Academic integrity in the sciences and engineering | MP 401 | |
| presented by Dr. Gobbert | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Project work | MP412 | |
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:30-05:00 | Project work | MP412 | |
| Saturday, 07/16/11 | Project work | MP 412 |
Week 5: 07/17/11-07/23/11
| Day | Time | Main topic | Location |
| Sunday, 07/17/11 | Project work | ||
| Monday, 07/18/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-10:45 | Class 27: Overview of the process of publishing a paper | MP 401 | |
| presented by Dr. Gobbert | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Project work | MP 412 | |
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:30-05:00 | Project work | MP 412 | |
| Tuesday, 07/19/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-10:45 | Class 28: The Bayesian approach in Statistics | MP 401 | |
| presented by April Albertine | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Project work | MP 412 | |
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:30-05:00 | Project work | MP 412 | |
| Wednesday, 07/20/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-10:45 | Class 29: LaTeX for posters | MP 401 | |
| presented by Dr. Gobbert and Andrew Raim | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Lab: initial poster preparation and testing | MP 412 | |
| facilitated by Andrew Raim | |||
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:30-05:00 | Project work | MP 412 | |
| Thursday, 07/21/11 | 09:00-12:00 | GRE preparation course | SOND 101 |
| 11:00-11:45 | Lunch break | MP 422 | |
| 11:45-05:00 | Field trip to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | ||
| 05:30-07:00 | Dinner | ||
| Friday, 07/22/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-10:45 | Class: Project updates; how to write scientific abstracts | MP 401 | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Lab: Project work; abstracts for SURF | MP412 | |
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:30-05:00 | Project work | MP412 | |
| Saturday, 07/23/11 | Project work |
Week 6: 07/24/11-07/30/11
| Day | Time | Main topic | Location |
| Sunday, 07/24/11 | Project work | ||
| Monday, 07/25/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-10:45 | Class: project updates | MP 401 | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Project work | MP 412 | |
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:30-05:00 | Project work | MP 412 | |
| Tuesday, 07/26/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-12:00 | Project work | MP 412 | |
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:30-05:00 | Project work | MP 412 | |
| Wednesday, 07/27/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-05:00 | Field trip to the National Security Agency (NSA) | ||
| Thursday, 07/28/11 | 09:00-12:00 | GRE preparation course | SOND 101 |
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:30-04:30 | Project work | MP 412 | |
| 04:00-05:00 | Professional development workshop | MP 401 | |
| 05:30-07:00 | Joint dinner | ||
| Friday, 07/29/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-10:45 | Class: Project updates | MP 401 | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Project work | MP412 | |
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:30-05:00 | Project work | MP412 | |
| Saturday, 07/30/11 | Project work |
Week 7: 07/31/11-08/06/11
| Day | Time | Main topic | Location |
| Sunday, 07/31/11 | Project work | ||
| Monday, 08/01/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-10:45 | Project updates | MP 401 | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Project work | ||
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 11:30-05:00 | Project work | ||
| Tuesday, 08/02/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-12:00 | Project work | ||
| 12:00-11:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 11:30-05:00 | Project work | ||
| Wednesday, 08/03/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-10:45 | Class: LaTeX for Talks | MP 401 | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Project work | MP 412 | |
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:30-05:00 | Project work | MP 412 | |
| Thursday, 08/04/11 | 09:00-12:00 | GRE preparation course | SOND 101 |
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:30-05:00 | Project work: preparation of posters for SURF | MP412 | |
| 05:30-07:00 | Professional development workshop with dinner | ||
| Friday, 08/05/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-10:45 | Class: Project updates; presentation of posters for SURF | MP 401 | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Lab: Project work; finalization of posters for SURF | MP412 | |
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:30-05:00 | Project work: draft of project webpage | MP412 | |
| Saturday, 08/06/11 | Project work |
Week 8: 08/07/11-08/12/11
| Day | Time | Main topic | Location |
| Sunday, 08/07/11 | Project work | ||
| Monday, 08/08/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-10:45 | Class: Confirmation of project posters; review of tech. rep. | MP 401 | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Lab: Design project webpages | MP 412 | |
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:30-05:00 | Project work | MP 412 | |
| Tuesday, 08/09/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | |
| 09:30-10:45 | Class: Final review of project reports | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Project work | MP412 | |
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch Break | ||
| 01:30-05:00 | Finalize project report | MP 412 | |
| Wednesday, 08/10/11 | 09:00-12:30 | Summer Undergraduate Research Fest (SURF) | AOK Library |
| 12:00-01:30 | Joint lunch with all participants | Skylight Room | |
| 01:30-03:00 | Project delivery to client | ||
| 03:30-05:00 | Program evaluation | ||
| Thursday, 08/11/11 | 09:00-12:00 | GRE preparation course | UC 115D |
| 12:00-01:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 01:30-03:00 | Project wrap-up to mentors | ||
| 03:30-05:00 | Finalize project webpages | ||
| 05:30-07:30 | Professional development workshop with dinner | ||
| Friday, 08/12/11 | 09:00-09:30 | Morning social | MP 422 |
| 09:30-10:45 | Class: Final program wrap-up | MP 401 | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Participant feedback on program | MP401 | |
| 12:00-01:30 | Joint lunch with all participants | Skylight Room |