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Team Members

  1. Chad Pilkey
  2. Justin Robinson

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Progress

Assignment 1

We began by profiling two things: a string-comparison algorithm, and a program which develops quasi-random visuals from an initial seed using a Turing Machine algorithm.


Justin's Findings

String comparison was not a good choice. If anything, it makes more sense to do string comparison in a serial fashion than in parallel. Comparing two strings of over 13,000 characters each in such a fashion as to force the algorithm to compare them all just barely results in a runtime of 0.001 seconds.


Chad's Profiling Findings

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Analysis: Of our two selections, the choice to move forward with the pattern generator is clear.

Difficulties Met:

One apparent difficulty is the need to port the pattern-generator from Javascript into C in order to make use of CUDA.


Summary:

  • String comparison is not an efficient use of parallel programming practises.


Resources:


Assignment 2

Assignment 3