CS267 Handout 1: Class Survey

Please fill this out, electronically if possible, and turn it in to the TA (fredwong@cs).

Full Name:

Email, URL (if you have one):

Enrolled, auditting, or undecided? (Auditors will be strongly encouraged to take the class P/NP, where a P will be awarded for satisfactory class participation over the course of the semester.)

When would you be free for a weekly 1 hour discussion section? Please include 5-6pm in your schedule, since we want to have some common time with CS258, and it may only be possible to find a large enough room after 5pm.

Department, year in grad school:

Phone, campus mail address, email address:

Do you have access to a UNIX workstation with internet access?

Relevant computing background (machines, languages used):

Relevant mathematics background (numerical analysis, engineering, modeling, physics, etc.):

Briefly describe your most ambitious (or relevant) programming project.

Why do you want to take this class?

Do you have a particular problem/application you'd like to parallelize?

Please fill in the following table, indicating your familiarity with the listed topics. We will cover some or all of these topics during the class, but I want to know what people know.

                                    Quite    Somewhat   Know what   Unfamilar 
                                   familiar  familiar     it is   
UNIX (any flavor) 
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Computer Block Diagram 
Pipelining 
Memory Hierarchy 
Race Condition 
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Graph algorithms
Traveling Salesman Problem
Sorting algorithms
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Fortran 
C 
C++
Java
Matlab 
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Numerical Stability 
Matrix Multiplication
Gaussian Elimination 
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Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors 
Newton's Laws of Motion 
Laplaces's or Poisson's equation 
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Heat equation 
Wave equation 
Finite difference methods 
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Successive Overrelaxation 
Multigrid 
Fast Fourier Transform 
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