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There are no required textbooks for the class. You will be expected to read each lecture handout before coming to the lecture. We will also provide a number of references in the slides and handouts.
However, there are two a few optional textbooks that we will draw from quite heavily. You are encouraged to get copies of either any or both books all of these books. They will serve as useful references both during and after this course:
- Java Concurrency in Practice by Brian Goetz with Tim Peierls, Joshua Bloch, Joseph Bowbeer, David Holmes and Doug Lea
- Principles of Parallel Programming by Calvin Lin & and Lawrence Snyder
- The Art of Multiprocessor Programming by Maurice Herlihy and Nir Shavit
Lecture Schedule
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1 | Mon | Jan 10 | Lecture 1: The What and Why of Parallel Programming |
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2 | Wed | Jan 12 | Lecture 2: Task Creation & Termination using Async & Finish |
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3 | Fri | Jan 14 | Lecture 3: Computation Graphs, Abstract Performance Metrics | lec3-handout | HW1 | ||
- | Mon | Jan 17 | School Holiday |
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4 | Wed | Jan 19 | Lecture 4: Futures --- Tasks with Return Values |
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5 | Fri | Jan 21 | Lecture 5: Parallel Array Sum and Array Reductions |
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6 | Mon | Jan 24 | Lecture 6: Data Races and How to Avoid Them |
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7 | Wed | Jan 26 | Lecture 7: Parallel Prefix Sum, Forall parallel loops |
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8 | Fri | Jan 28 | Lecture 8: Parallel Quicksort | lec8-handout |
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9 | Mon | Jan 31 | Lecture 9: PRAM model, Amdahl's Law |
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10 | Wed | Feb 02 | Lecture 10: Critical sections and the Isolated statement | lec10-handout |
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- | Fri | Feb 04 | No Lecture, School closed due to inclement weather |
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11 | Mon | Feb 07 | Lecture 11: Abstract vs Real Performance, Work-sharing & Work-stealing schedulers |
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12 | Wed | Feb 09 | Lecture 12: Barrier Synchronization in Forall Loops |
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13 | Fri | Feb 11 | Lecture 13: Barrier Synchronization in Forall Loops (contd) |
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14 | Mon | Feb 14 | Lecture 14: Point-to-point Synchronization and Phasers |
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15 | Wed | Feb 16 | Lecture 15: Point-to-point Synchronization and Phasers (contd) |
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16 | Fri | Feb 18 | Lecture 16: Guest Lecture on Bitonic Sort (John Mellor-Crummey) |
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17 | Mon | Feb 21 | Lecture 17: Advanced Phaser topics |
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18 | Wed | Feb 23 | Lecture 18: Midterm Summary |
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- | Fri | Feb 25 | No lecture, Midterm Exam due today |
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- | M-F | Feb 28 - Mar 04 | Spring Break |
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19 | Mon | Mar 07 | Lecture 19: Java Atomic Variables |
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20 | Wed | Mar 09 | Lecture 20: Java Concurrent Collections |
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21 | Fri | Mar 11 | Lecture 21: Task Affinity with Places |
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22 | Mon | Mar 14 | Lecture 22: Task Affinity with Places, contd. |
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23 | Wed | Mar 16 | Lecture 23: Bounded Buffers |
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24 | Fri | Mar 18 | Lecture 24: Map Reduce, Phaser Accumulators |
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25 | Mon | Mar 21 | Lecture 25: Data Flow Programming |
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26 | Wed | Mar 23 | Lecture 26: Data Flow Programming, contd |
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- | Fri | Mar 25 | Midterm Recess |
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27 | Mon | Mar 28 | Lecture 27: Java Threads and synchronized statement |
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28 | Wed | Mar 30 | Lecture 28: GUI Applications |
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29 | Fri | Apr 01 | Lecture 29: Java Executors |
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30 | Mon | Apr 04 | Lecture 30: Java Locks & Conditions |
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31 | Wed | Apr 06 | Lecture 31: Java Synchronizers |
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32 | Fri | Apr 08 | Lecture 32: Deadlock, Livelock, Liveness |
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33 | Mon | Apr 11 | Lecture 33: Java Memory Model and Volatile Variables |
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34 | Wed | Apr 13 | Lecture 34: GPGPU programming with CUDA |
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35 | Fri | Apr 15 | Lecture 35: CUDA contd. |
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36 | Mon | Apr 18 | Lecture 36: Distributed-memory programming with MPI |
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37 | Wed | Apr 20 | Lecture 37: MPI contd. |
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38 | Fri | Apr 22 | Lecture 38: Course Summary |
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