CSE262 Wi15 - HW1, Questionnaire

Homework #1

• This homework is worth 2% of your grade and must be handed in at the start of class on Thursday Jan 7, 2015. In addition to hard copy, email me a PDF.

• This assignment should be done individually (for obvious reasons) but you may discuss it with others

0. What is your name, email and student ID?

1. Tell me about yourself.

1. What is your home department? Are you in CSME?
2. At what point are you in your graduate studies?
3. What are your research interests?
4. What do you expect to get out of the course?
5. Do you have a research project in mind?
6. Any industry or research lab experience (could be inside or outside UCSD)? Where relevant, relate this experience to your programming background.
7. Have you taken any parallel computing coursers previously? Where and when? Where relevant, relate this experience to your programming background.

2. Your programming background.

Get into details: the hows and the whys, as well as which approaches you are most comfortable with.

1. CUDA / OpenCL
2. MPI
3. Multithreading (Pthreads, Java Threads, C++11 threads, OpenMP)
4. C++/C
5. Fortran
6. Matlab
7. Scripting languages (e.g. python)
8. Other programming languages

3. Computing experience.

1. I have used high performance supercomputers. Which machine(s) and at what scale? For what reason?
2. I have worked with or designed numerical algorithms, including partial differential equations, systems of equations, machine learning algorithms, computer graphics. What problem(s) did you solve and what was (were) the application(s)?