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For the Histogram project, you may take into account CImg for the image read/write activities. This only runs on the PHI KNL. I'll provide the students that will pick up this project an account on the PHI KNL, just moving their current account to this other machine (see instructions for the access here).

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• January 15, 2018 (deadline for registration: January 9th)
• February 5, 2018 (deadline for registration: February 2nd)

These are extraordinary exam terms, not published on esami.unipi.it. Please register sending an email to the professor with subject “SPM exam registration” with name, surname, enrollment number (matricola) and master degree (Informatica or Informatica and networking) in the message body, by the deadline shown above.

As you know, the lessons have been given just as a minimal support to the course. The program to prepare the oral exam is the one covered by:

• Course notes: chapters 1-6, 8, 10 (10.4 and 10.5 excluded)

Additionally, I expect you use the following material:

• C++ threads and concurrency mechanisms
• Intel vectorization guide
• FastFlow tutorial
• GrPPI
• OpenMP