CSE 6220 Programming Assignment 2

Code hosting

You are highly encouraged to use a code version management tool such as git.
This will help you to code in a team and keep track of your progress.

However, do not upload your code to public repositories. If you want to use
version management for collaboration, make sure to use private repositories.

I highly recommend using Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Github installation at
https://github.gatech.edu/

We will also be hosting the framework code for the programming assignment on
there. If you find any issues with the code framework and we have to make
changes, we will publish those changes in that GitHub repository additionally to
sending out the updated framework.

Code structure

All the code is located at the root level of the project.
The gtest folder contains the Google Test Unit Testing framework version 1.7.

There are multiple header and .cpp files, your implementation will go
into the following files:

• parallel_sort.h: Declares the API for the parallel sorting implementation.
  Declare your own helper functions in this file.
• parallel_sort.cpp: Your implementation should go in here.
• mpi_tests.cpp: Unit tests for the parallel MPI code. Implement your own
  test cases for all declared functions in here.

Other files containing code that you should not change are:

• main.cpp: Implements code for the main executable sort. This does
  input/output reading and calling of the actual functions.
• utils.h/utils.cpp: common utility functions
• io.h/io.cpp: implements IO functions and random input generation, and MPI
  gather/scatter functions
• mpi_gtest.cpp: MPI wrapper for the GTest framework

Utility scripts (you may play around with these to generate your own custom
input):

• input.py: Python script to generate random inputs. Feel free to modify this
  script in order to generate different types of input.

Compiling

In order to compile everything, simply run

make all

Running the executable

After compilation, you’ll have an executable sort. You can use this program as
follows:

Usage: ./sort [options] [input_file]
      Optional arguments:
          -o <file>    Output all solutions to the given file.
          -o -         Output all solutions to stdout.
          -t           Runs global tests on the sorting algorithm. NO input file!
          -r           Run random number tests, random numbers are generated only locally, no bottleneck at startup.
          -n <n>       Sets the number of generated input integers (mandatory with option -r and -t)
      Example:
          ./sort -o - input.txt
                  Sorts the numbers given by input.txt and outputs the sorted result to the terminal

Running Tests

For running all tests do:

make test

You can also run the tests separately by:

mpirun -np 4 ./mpi_tests