introduction.rst

Introduction

Contacts

• Alexander Nesterov — nesterov.alexander@outlook.com
• Arseniy Obolenskiy — me@gooddoog.ru

Practice

• We work online
  • Use GitHub repository
  • Use Pull Requests
  • Merge into the master branch
  • Test verification
• Task distribution is random for each student.
• Full automation of quality and performance checks; plagiarism checks are applied.
• Deadlines are set per task. See the penalties and grading rules in Points.
• Examples are provided in tasks/example_threads and tasks/example_processes (and extended variations tasks/example_processes_2 / tasks/example_processes_3).
• In each repository, the README.md contains a link to the course documentation (read it fully!!!).
• Additionally, each repository includes an example of a properly formatted PULL REQUEST.
• Submission of all tasks is mandatory to pass the course.
• A task that has been merged into the master branch continues to be monitored. If a task fails in the master, it is disabled, and a record of this is added to the score table. All disabled tasks will result in a zero points result for those tasks at the end of the semester. It can be seen that your task is disabled due to the following reason: the directory of your task has been renamed from seq/nesterov_a_vector_sum to seq/nesterov_a_vector_sum_disabled

Communication

• Telegram channel — announcements and quick updates
• GitHub Issues — repository problems and bug reports
• Lessons — Q&A
• Feedback form — critical issues
• Email — non‑urgent matters

Next steps

• Practice 1 (intro): task distribution, brief talk on parallelism, MPI examples
• Practice 2 (repo usage): repository checks and project structure walkthrough
• All resources for using the repository will be provided here:
  • Git for half an hour: A Beginner’s Guide
  • Getting Started with Git and GitHub: A Beginner’s Guide
  • Git: A Quick Start Guide to Using Core Operations with Explanations
  • Conflicts resolving in Git
  • Google testing framework (gtest)
  • GoogleTest Primer
  • GitHub Actions documentation
  • Parallel Programming Technologies. Message Passing Interface (MPI)
  • Typing and Layout in the System LaTeX
  • LaTeX for the beginners
  • What is OpenMP?
  • TBB-1
  • Writing Multithreaded Applications in C++
  • Multithreading: New Features of the C++11 Standard
  • Introduction to Parallel Computing

* All instructions, repositories, and tables may be updated during the learning process for better usability. Be prepared for changes, check and update them periodically!!!