Written by Dr. Dirk Colbry, Michigan State University
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In order to successfully complete this assignment you must do the required reading, watch the provided videos and complete all instructions. The embedded survey form must be entirely filled out and submitted on or before 11:59pm on Sunday February 14. Students must come to class the next day prepared to discuss the material covered in this assignment.
✅ DO THIS: Watch the following video on YouTube Introduction to OpenMP: 06 Discussion 2
from IPython.display import YouTubeVideo
YouTubeVideo("OuzYICZUthM",width=640,height=360)
✅ QUESTION: What is false Sharing and why is it bad?
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✅ DO THIS: Watch the following video on YouTube Introduction to OpenMP: 07 Module 4
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YouTubeVideo("WcPZLJKtywc",width=640,height=360)
✅ QUESTION: What is barrier Synchronization?
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✅ QUESTION: According to the video, what is Mutual Exclusion?
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✅ QUESTION: What are the three major high level Synchronization constructs in OpenMP?
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✅ QUESTION: Pick your favorite parallel Pi solution from the previous class and add a Synchronization construct that doesn't run into the false sharing problem? Benchmark your code and see how it compares to the code in the video. Bring your code to class.
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Please fill out the form that appears when you run the code below. You must completely fill this out in order to receive credits for the assignment!
If you have trouble with the embedded form, please make sure you log on with your MSU google account at googleapps.msu.edu and then click on the direct link above.
✅ Assignment-Specific QUESTION: What are the three major high level Synchronization constructs in OpenMP?
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✅ QUESTION: Summarize what you did in this assignment.
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✅ QUESTION: What questions do you have, if any, about any of the topics discussed in this assignment after working through the jupyter notebook?
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✅ QUESTION: How well do you feel this assignment helped you to achieve a better understanding of the above mentioned topic(s)?
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✅ QUESTION: What was the most challenging part of this assignment for you?
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✅ QUESTION: What was the least challenging part of this assignment for you?
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✅ QUESTION: What kind of additional questions or support, if any, do you feel you need to have a better understanding of the content in this assignment?
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✅ QUESTION: Do you have any further questions or comments about this material, or anything else that's going on in class?
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✅ QUESTION: Approximately how long did this pre-class assignment take?
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Written by Dr. Dirk Colbry, Michigan State University
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.