Peachy parallel assignments (EduPar 2025).

Abstract

Peachy Parallel Assignments are assignments on parallel computing topics that have been tested in a classroom, are designed for easy adoption by others, and are ``cool and inspirational'' for students. They are published so that others can benefit from the authors' assignment-creation work, raising the overall quality of assignments given in our area while also saving instructors time. The assignments are selected competitively at the Edu* workshops. This article presents two assignments selected for presentation at EduPar 2025: one that has students use the MapReduce framework to resize images using the 2D discrete Fourier transform and one that has them parallelize an agent-based model to simulate a zombie outbreak.