CS 181E Resource Site: Fundamentals of Parallel Programming (Fall 2012)
Introduction
This web site contains resources for the Fall 2012 offering of CS 181E at Harvey Mudd College. For general information on this course, please see the course Twiki page and the course syllabus.
Lecture Schedule
| Day | Date (2012) | Topic | Slides | Audio (Panopto) | Code Examples | Assignment |
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| Module 1: Deterministic Shared-Memory Parallelism | |||||||
1 | Wed | Sep 05 | Lecture 1: Introduction, Async-Finish Parallel Programming, Computation Graphs, Abstract Performance Metrics, Parallel Array Sum | lec1-audio | HW0 (due by 11:59pm on Tuesday, Sep 11th) | ||
2 | Mon | Sep 10 | Lecture 2: Parallel Array Sum (contd), Amdahl's Law, Weak vs. Strong Scaling, Data Races and Determinism | lec2-audio |
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3 | Wed | Sep 12 | Lecture 3: Finish Accumulators, Futures (Tasks with Return Values), Dataflow Programming, Data-Driven Tasks |
| HW1 (due by 11:59pm on Tuesday, Sep 18th) | ||
4 | Mon | Sep 17 | Lecture 4: Parallel Programming Patterns, Seq clause, Forall Loops, Barrier Synchronization |
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5 | Wed | Sep 19 | Lecture 5: Systolic Algorithms, Parallel Odd-Even Sort |
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| HW2 (due by 11:59pm on Tuesday, Sep 25th) | |
6 | Mon | Sep 24 | Lecture 6: Collective and Point-to-point Synchronization with Phasers, Phased Forasync Loops, Phaser Accumulators, Loop Chunking | lec6-audio |
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| Module 2: Nondeterministic Shared-Memory Parallelism | |||||||
7 | Wed | Sep 26 | Lecture 7: Critical sections and the Isolated statement, Atomic Variables | HW3 (due by 11:59pm on Thursday, Oct 4th) | |||
8 | Mon | Oct 01 | Lecture 8: Observationally Cooperative Scheduling (Guest lecturer: Prof. Melissa O'Neil) | lec8-slides |
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9 | Wed | Oct 03 | Lecture 9: Monitors, Actors | lec9-slides | HW4 (due by 11:59pm on Friday, Oct 12th) | ||
10 | Mon | Oct 08 | Lecture 10: Linearizability of Concurrent Objects, Safety and Liveness Properties, Progress Guarantees | lec10-slides |
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| Module 3: Distributed-Memory Parallelism | |||||||
11 | Wed | Oct 10 | Lecture 11: Task Affinity with Places, Message Passing Interface (MPI) | lec11-slides |
| HW5 (due by 11:59pm on Wednesday, Oct 17th) | |
12 | Mon | Oct 15 | Lecture 12: Message Passing Interface (contd) | lec12-slides |
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13 | Wed | Oct 17 | Lecture 13: Course Review | lec13-slides |
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| Take-home Final Exam (3-hour duration, due by 5pm on Oct 19th) |