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This web site contains resources for the Fall 2012 offering of CS 181E at Harvey Mudd COllegeCollege. For general information on this course, please go to the course home page.
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1 | Wed | Sep 05 | Lecture 1: Introduction, Async-Finish Parallel Programming, Computation Graphs, Abstract Performance Metrics, Amdahl's Law |
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2 | Mon | Sep 10 | Lecture 2: Data & Control Flow with Async Tasks, Data Races and Determinism, Parallel Speedup, Efficiency, Amdahl's Law, Finish Accumulators, Futures (Tasks with Return Values), Dataflow Programming, Data-Driven Tasks |
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3 | Wed | Sep 12 | Lecture 3: Finish Accumulators, Futures (Tasks with Return Values), Dataflow Programming, Data-Driven Tasks Abstract vs. Real Performance, Seq clause, Forasync Loops, Loop Chunking, Forall Loops and Barrier Synchronization |
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4 | Mon | Sep 17 | Lecture 4: Forasync loops, Array Reductions, Parallel Prefix Sum algorithm, Parallel QuickSort |
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5 | Wed | Sep 19 | Lecture 5: Parallel MergeSort, Parallel BitonicSort |
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6 | Mon | Sep 24 | Lecture 6: Abstract vs. Real Performance, Seq clause, Forasync Chunking, Forall Loops and Barrier Synchronization Point-to-point Synchronization and Phasers, Phaser Accumulators, Bounded Phasers, Summary of Deterministic Shared-Memory Parallelism |
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7 | Wed | Sep 26 | Lecture 7: Point-to-point Synchronization and Phasers, Phaser Accumulators, Bounded Phasers, Summary of Deterministic Shared-Memory ParallelismActors |
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8 | Mon | Oct 01 | Lecture 8: Critical sections and the Isolated statement, Monitors, Atomic Variables, Linearizability of Concurrent Objects Systolic arrays, systolic algorithms |
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9 | Wed | Oct 03 | Lecture 9: Critical sections and the Isolated statement, Monitors, Atomic Variables, Linearizability of Concurrent Objects (contd), Safety and Liveness Properties |
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10 | Mon | Oct 08 | Lecture 10: Actors Linearizability of Concurrent Objects (contd), Safety and Liveness Properties |
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11 | Wed | Oct 10 | Lecture 11: Task Affinity with Places, Message Passing Interface (MPI) |
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12 | Mon | Oct 15 | Lecture 12: Memory Models, |
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13 | Wed | Oct 17 | Lecture 12: |
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14 | Mon | Oct 22 | Lecture 13: |
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15 | Wed | Oct 24 | Lecture 14: |
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16 | Mon | Oct 29 | Lecture 15: |
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17 | Wed | Oct 31 | Lecture 16: |
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18 | Mon | Nov 05 | Lecture 17: |
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19 | Wed | Nov 07 | Lecture 18: Task Affinity with Places (contd) |
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20 | Mon | Nov 12 | Lecture 19: Midterm Summary |
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21 | Wed | Nov 14 | Lecture 20: |
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22 | Mon | Nov 19 | Lecture 21: |
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23 | Wed | Nov 21 | Lecture 22: |
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24 | Mon | Nov 26 | Lecture 23: |
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25 | Wed | Nov 28 | Lecture 24: |
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26 | Mon | Mar 16 | Lecture 25: |
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27 | Wed | Mar 19 | Lecture 26: Parallel Programming Patterns |
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28 | Mon | Mar 21 | Lecture 27: Introduction to Java Threads |
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29 | Wed | Mar 26 | Lecture 28: |
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30 | Mon | Mar 28 | Lecture 29: Java Threads (contd), Java synchronized statement |
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31 | Wed | Mar 30 | Lecture 30: Java synchronized statement (contd), advanced locking |
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32 | Mon | Apr 02 | Lecture 31: Java Executors and Synchronizers |
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33 | Wed | Apr 04 | Lecture 32: Volatile Variables and Java Memory Model |
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34 | Mon | Apr 06 | Lecture 33: Message Passing Interface (MPI) |
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35 | Wed | Apr 09 | Lecture 34: Message Passing Interface (MPI, contd) |
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36 | Mon | Apr 11 | Lecture 35: Cloud Computing, Map Reduce |
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37 | Wed | Apr 13 | Lecture 36: Map Reduce (contd) |
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38 | Mon | Apr 16 | Lecture 37: Speculative parallelization of isolated blocks (Guest lecture by Prof. Swarat Chaudhuri) |
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39 | Wed | Apr 18 | Lecture 38: Comparison of Parallel Programming Models |
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40 | Mon | Apr 20 | Lecture 39: Course Review |
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