Assignments

Note first of all that not all assignments are worth the same number of points. Particularly towards the end of the semester, the point values per assignment will generally increase.

Assignment 1, to time computing a the 2-norm of a vector of doubles, and figure the computational rate.
Assignment 2, to time different ways of computing norms and find out which is fastest.
Notice I've updated the zip file containing the Matlab version, and put it into zip file updated_norms.zip. You can use either of the two, just be sure to fix my mistake on the 2-norm if you use the original version.
Assignment 3, to use the BLAS-3s. You do not need to use these, but here is a gzipped tar file and a zip file with the Matlab tools I used in class on 18 Nov. And a way-too large data set is in those as well. They also have some utility scripts that factor and format numbers, looking for any features that may affect performance.

History of this page:

Started: 2009 Aug 31
Modified: Mon 21 Sep 2009, 01:45 PM to add in the second assignment
Modified: Mon 05 Oct 2009, 06:30 PM to correct/update the zip file updated_norms.zip for the second assignment
Modified: Wed 11 Nov 2009, 07:52 AM for third assignment
Modified: Wed 18 Nov 2009, 02:59 PM to correct 2 into 3, and add a link to more Matlab stuff for wrangling LU perf data.
Last Modified: Wed 18 Nov 2009, 03:14 PM