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COMP 322: Fundamentals of Parallel Programming (Spring
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2024)
Instructor: | Mackale Joyner, DH 2063 | TAs: | Mohamed Abead, Chase Hartsell, Taha Hasan, Harrison Huang, Jerry Jiang, Jasmine Lee, Michelle Lee, Hung Nguyen, Quang Nguyen, Ryan Ramos, Oscar Reynozo, Delaney Schultz, Tina Wen, Raiyan Zannat, Kailin Zhang |
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Piazza site: | https://piazza.com/rice/spring2023/comp322 (Piazza is the preferred medium for all course communications) | Cross-listing: | ELEC 323 |
Lecture location: | Herzstein Amphitheater | Lecture times: | MWF 1:00pm - 1:50pm |
Lab locations: | Mon (Herzstein Amp), Tue (Keck 100) | Lab times: | Mon 3:00pm - 3:50pm (Raiyan, Oscar, Mohamed, Ryan, Michelle, Taha) Tue 4:00pm - 4:50pm (Tina, Delaney, Chase, Hung, Jerry, Kailin, Jasmine) 50pm |
Course Syllabus
A summary PDF file containing the course syllabus for the course can be found here. Much of the syllabus information is also included below in this course web site, along with some additional details that are not included in the syllabus.
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Lecture Schedule
Week | Day | Date (20232024) | Lecture | Assigned Reading | Assigned Videos (see Canvas site for video links) | In-class Worksheets | Slides | Work Assigned | Work Due | Worksheet Solutions | |
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1 | Mon | Jan 09 | Lecture 1: Introduction | worksheet1 | lec1-slides | WS1-solution | |||||
Wed | Jan 11 | Lecture 2: Functional Programming | worksheet2 | lec02-slides | WS2-solution | ||||||
| Fri | Jan 13 | Lecture 3: Higher order functions | worksheet3 | lec3-slides | WS3-solution | ||||||
2 | Mon | Jan 16 | No class: MLK | ||||||||
Wed | Jan 18 | Lecture 4: Lazy Computation | worksheet4 | lec4-slides | WS4-solution | ||||||
Fri | Jan 20 | Lecture 5: Java Streams | worksheet5 | lec5-slides | Homework 1 | WS5-solution | |||||
| 3 | Mon | Jan 23 | Lecture 6: Map Reduce with Java Streams | Module 1: Section 2.4 | Topic 2.4 Lecture, Topic 2.4 Demonstration | worksheet6 | lec6-slides | WS6-solution | |||
Wed | Jan 25 | Lecture 7: Futures | Module 1: Section 2.1 | Topic 2.1 Lecture , Topic 2.1 Demonstration | worksheet7 | lec7-slides | WS7-solution | ||||
Fri | Jan 27 | Lecture 8: Async, Finish, Computation Graphs | Module 1: Sections 1.1, 1.2 | Topic 1.1 Lecture, Topic 1.1 Demonstration, Topic 1.2 Lecture, Topic 1.2 Demonstration | worksheet8 | lec8-slides | WS8-solution | ||||
4 | Mon | Jan 30 | Lecture 9: Ideal Parallelism, Data-Driven Tasks | Module 1: Section 1.3, 4.5 | Topic 1.3 Lecture, Topic 1.3 Demonstration, Topic 4.5 Lecture, Topic 4.5 Demonstration | worksheet9 | lec9-slides | WS9-solution | |||
| Wed | Feb 01 | Lecture 10: Event-based programming model | worksheet10 | lec10-slides | Homework 1 | WS10-solution | |||||
| Fri | Feb 03 | Lecture 11: GUI programming, Scheduling/executing computation graphs | Module 1: Section 1.4 | Topic 1.4 Lecture , Topic 1.4 Demonstration | worksheet11 | lec11-slides | Homework 2 | WS11-solution | |||
| 5 | Mon | Feb 06 | Lecture 12: Abstract performance metrics, Parallel Speedup, Amdahl's Law | Module 1: Section 1.5 | Topic 1.5 Lecture , Topic 1.5 Demonstration | worksheet12 | lec12-slides | WS12-solution | |||
Wed | Feb 08 | Lecture 13: Accumulation and reduction. Finish accumulators | Module 1: Section 2.3 | Topic 2.3 Lecture Topic 2.3 Demonstration | worksheet13 | lec13-slides | WS13-solution | ||||
Fri | Feb 10 | No class: Spring Recess | |||||||||
| 6 | Mon | Feb 13 | Lecture 14: Data Races, Functional & Structural Determinism | Module 1: Sections 2.5, 2.6 | Topic 2.5 Lecture , Topic 2.5 Demonstration, Topic 2.6 Lecture, Topic 2.6 Demonstration | worksheet14 | lec14-slides | WS14-solution | |||
Wed | Feb 15 | Lecture 15: Limitations of Functional parallelism. | worksheet15 | lec15-slides | Homework 2 | WS15-solution | |||||
| Fri | Feb 17 | Lecture 16: Recursive Task Parallelism | worksheet16 | lec16-slides | Homework 3 | WS16-solution | |||||
7 | Mon | Feb 20 | Lecture 17: Midterm Review | lec17-slides | |||||||
Wed | Feb 22 | Lecture 18: Midterm Review | lec18-slides | ||||||||
Fri | Feb 24 | Lecture 19: Data-Parallel Programming model. Loop-Level Parallelism, Loop Chunking | Module 1: Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 | Topic 3.1 Lecture, Topic 3.1 Demonstration , Topic 3.2 Lecture, Topic 3.2 Demonstration, Topic 3.3 Lecture, Topic 3.3 Demonstration | worksheet19 | lec19-slides | WS19-solution | ||||
8 | Mon | Feb 27 | Lecture 20: Barrier Synchronization with Phasers | Module 1: Sections 3.4 | Topic 3.4 Lecture, Topic 3.4 Demonstration | worksheet20 | lec20-slides | WS20-solution | |||
Wed | Mar 01 | Lecture 21:Stencil computation. Point-to-point Synchronization with Phasers | Module 1: Sections 4.2, 4.3 | Topic 4.2 Lecture, Topic 4.2 Demonstration, Topic 4.3 Lecture, Topic 4.3 Demonstration | worksheet21 | lec21-slides | WS21-solution | ||||
Fri | Mar 03 | Lecture 22: Fuzzy Barriers with Phasers | Module 1: Section 4.1 | Topic 4.1 Lecture, Topic 4.1 Demonstration | worksheet22 | lec22-slides | WS22-solution | ||||
9 | Mon | Mar 06 | Lecture 23: Fork/Join programming model. OS Threads. Scheduler Pattern | Topic 2.7 Lecture, Topic 2.7 Demonstration, Topic 2.8 Lecture, Topic 2.8 Demonstration | worksheet23 | lec23-slides | Homework 3 (CP 1) | WS23-solution | |||
Wed | Mar 08 | Lecture 24: Confinement & Monitor Pattern. Critical sections | Module 2: Sections 5.1, 5.2 | Topic 5.1 Lecture, Topic 5.1 Demonstration, Topic 5.2 Lecture, Topic 5.2 Demonstration, Topic 5.6 Lecture, Topic 5.6 Demonstration | worksheet24 | lec24-slides | WS24-solution | ||||
Fri | Mar 10 | Lecture 25: Atomic variables, Synchronized statements | Module 2: Sections 5.4, 7.2 | Topic 5.4 Lecture, Topic 5.4 Demonstration, Topic 7.2 Lecture | worksheet25 | lec25-slides | WS25-solution | ||||
Mon | Mar 13 | No class: Spring Break | |||||||||
| Wed | Mar 15 | No class: Spring Break | |||||||||
Fri | Mar 17 | No class: Spring Break | |||||||||
10 | Mon | Mar 20 | Lecture 26: Parallel Spanning Tree, other graph algorithms | worksheet26 | lec26-slides | WS26-solution | |||||
Wed | Mar 22 | Lecture 27: Java Threads and Locks | Module 2: Sections 7.1, 7.3 | Topic 7.1 Lecture, Topic 7.3 Lecture | worksheet27 | lec27-slides | Homework 3 (CP 2) | WS27-solution | |||
Fri | Mar 24 | Lecture 28: Java Locks - Soundness and progress guarantees | Module 2: Section 7.5 | Topic 7.5 Lecture | worksheet28 | lec28-slides | WS28-solution | ||||
11 | Mon | Mar 27 | Lecture 29: Dining Philosophers Problem | Module 2: Section 7.6 | Topic 7.6 Lecture | worksheet29 | lec29-slides | WS29-solution | |||
Wed | Mar 29 | Lecture 30: Read-Write Locks, Linearizability of Concurrent Objects | Module 2: Sections 7.3, 7.4 | Topic 7.3 Lecture, Topic 7.4 Lecture | worksheet30 | lec30-slides | WS30-solution | ||||
Fri | Mar 31 | Lecture 31: Message-Passing programming model with Actors | Module 2: Sections 6.1, 6.2 | Topic 6.1 Lecture, Topic 6.1 Demonstration, Topic 6.2 Lecture, Topic 6.2 Demonstration | worksheet31 | lec31-slides | WS31-solution | ||||
12 | Mon | Apr 03 | No class | Homework 4 | Homework 3 (All) | ||||||
Wed | Apr 05 | Lecture 32: Active Object Pattern. Combining Actors with task parallelism | Module 2: Sections 6.3, 6.4 | Topic 6.3 Lecture, Topic 6.3 Demonstration, Topic 6.4 Lecture, Topic 6.4 Demonstration | worksheet32 | lec32-slides | WS32-solution | ||||
Fri | Apr 07 | Lecture 33: Task Affinity and locality. Memory hierarchy | worksheet33 | lec33-slides | WS33-solution | ||||||
13 | Mon | Apr 10 | Lecture 34: Eureka-style Speculative Task Parallelism | worksheet34 | lec34-slides | WS34-solution | |||||
| Wed | Apr 12 | Lecture 35: Scan Pattern. Parallel Prefix Sum | worksheet35 | lec35-slides | Homework 4 (CP 1) | WS35-solution | |||||
| Fri | Apr 14 | Lecture 36: Parallel Prefix Sum applications | worksheet36 | lec36-slides | WS36-solution | ||||||
| 14 | Mon | Apr 17 | Lecture 37: Overview of other models and frameworks | lec37-slides | |||||||
| Wed | Apr 19 | Lecture 38: Course Review (Lectures 19-34) | lec38-slides | Homework 4 (All) | |||||||
| Fri | Apr 21 | Lecture 39: Course Review (Lectures 19-34) | lec39-slides |
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