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1 | Mon | Jan 13 | Lecture 1: The What and Why of Parallel Programming, Async-Finish Parallel Programming, | Module 1: Sections 0.1, 0.2, 1.1, |
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| Wed | Jan 15 | Lecture 2: Data & Control Flow with Async Tasks, Computation Graphs | Module 1: Sections 1.3, 3.1, 3.2 |
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| Fri | Jan 17 | Lecture 3: Computation Graphs (contd), Parallel Speedup, Strong Scaling, Abstract Performance Metrics | Module 1: Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 | ArraySum1.hj | ||||
2 | Mon | Jan 20 | Lecture 4: Abstract Performance Metrics (contd), Parallel Efficiency, Amdahl's Law, Weak Scaling | Module 1: Sections 3.3, 3.4 | Search2.hj | ||||
| Wed | Jan 22 | Lecture 5: Data Races, Determinism, Memory Models | Module 1: Chapter 4 | |||||
| Fri | Jan 24 | Lecture 6: Data races (contd), Futures --- Tasks with Return Values | Module 1: Chapter 4, Section 5.1, 5.2 | |||||
3 | Mon | Jan 27 | No lecture, School Holiday (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) | ||||||
| Wed | Jan 29 | No lecture, Reading Assignment on Futures: Chapter 5 of Module 1 handout | Module 1: Chapter 5 |
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| Fri | Jan 31 | Lecture 7: Futures (contd), Parallel Design Patterns, Finish Accumulators | Module 1: Chapter 5, Chapter 6 | |||||
4 | Mon | Feb 03 | Lecture 8: Parallel N-Queens, Parallel Prefix Sum (Array Reductions with Associative Operators) | Module 1: Chapter 7 | |||||
| Wed | Feb 05 | Lecture 9: Abstract vs. Real Performance | Module 1: Chapter 9 | |||||
| Fri | Feb 07 | Lecture 10: Abstract vs. Real Performance (contd), seq clause | Module 1: Chapter 9 | |||||
5 | Mon | Feb 10 | Lecture 11: Forasync Loops, Forasync Chunking | Module 1: Sections 8.1, 9.4 | |||||
| Wed | Feb 12 | Lecture 12: Forall Loops, Barrier Synchronization | Module 1: Sections 10.1, 10.2, 10.4 | HW2 (due by 5pm on Feb 7th) | ||||
| Fri | Feb 14 | Lecture 13: Forall and Barriers, Dataflow Computing, Data-Driven Tasks | Module 1: Chapters 10, 11 |
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6 | Mon | Feb 17 | Lecture 14: Recap of HJ constructs, Point-to-point Synchronization, Pipeline Parallelism, Introduction to Phasers | Module 1: Sections 12.1, 12.2 | |||||
| Wed | Feb 19 | Lecture 15: Point-to-point Synchronization with Phasers | Module 1: Section 12.3 | |||||
| Fri | Feb 21 | Lecture 16: Phaser Accumulators, Bounded Phasers, Summary of Barriers and Phasers | Module 1: Chapter 12 | |||||
7 | Mon | Feb 24 | Lecture 17: Midterm Summary | ||||||
| Wed | Feb 26 | Lecture 18: Midterm Summary (contd), Take-home Exam 1 distributed | ||||||
| F | Feb 28 | No Lecture (Exam 1 due by 5pm today) | HW3 (due by 11:55pm on Feb 24th) | |||||
- | M-F | Feb 28- Mar 09 | Spring Break |
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8 | Mon | Mar 10 | Lecture 19: Critical sections, Isolated statement, Atomic variables | Module 2: Chapters 1, 2, 4, 6 |
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| Wed | Mar 12 | Lecture 20: Parallel Spanning Tree algorithm, Monitors, Java Concurrent Collections | Module 2: Chapters 3, 7 |
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| Fri | Mar 14 | Lecture 21: Actors | Module 2: Chapter 8 |
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9 | Mon | Mar 17 | Lecture 22: Actors (contd), Linearizability of Concurrent Objects | Module 2: Chapters 8, 9 |
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| Wed | Mar 19 | Lecture 23: Linearizability of Concurrent Objects (contd) | Module 2: Chapters 9, 10 |
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| Fri | Mar 21 | Lecture 24: Safety and Liveness Properties, Intro to Java Threads | Module 2: Chapters 11, 12 |
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10 | Mon | Mar 24 | Lecture 25: Java Threads (contd), Java synchronized statement | Module 2: Chapters 12, 13, 14 |
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| Wed | Mar 26 | Lecture 26: Java synchronized statement (contd), advanced locking | Module 2: Chapter 14 |
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| Fri | Mar 28 | Lecture 27: Speculative parallelization of isolated blocks (Guest lecture by Prof. Swarat Chaudhuri) |
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11 | Mon | Mar 31 | Lecture 28: Java Executors and Synchronizers |
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| Wed | Apr 02 | Lecture 29: Dining Philosophers Problem |
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- | Fri | Apr 04 | Midterm Recess | ||||||
12 | Mon | Apr 07 | Lecture 30: Task Affinity with Places |
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| Wed | Apr 09 | Lecture 31: More on Actors: Places, Dining Philosophers (Guest lecture by Shams Imam) |
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| Fri | Apr 11 | Lecture 32: Message Passing Interface (MPI) |
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13 | Mon | Apr 14 | Lecture 33: Message Passing Interface (MPI, contd) |
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| Wed | Apr 16 | Lecture 34: Message Passing Interface (MPI, contd) |
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| Fri | Apr 18 | Lecture 35: Cloud Computing, Map Reduce |
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14 | Mon | Apr 21 | Lecture 36: Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) languages (Guest lecture by Prof. John Mellor-Crummey) |
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| Wed | Apr 23 | Lecture 37: Comparison of Parallel Programming Models |
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| Fri | Apr 25 | Lecture 38: Course Review, Take-home Exam 2 distributed | HW6 (due by 11:55pm on April 19th, penalty-free extension till April 26th) | |||||
- | Fri | May 02 | No lectures this week — Exam 2 due by 4pm today |
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