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| 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, Amdahl's Law |
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| HW1 (due by 11:59pm on Sep 11th) |
2 | Mon | Sep 10 | Lecture 2: Data Races and Determinism, Finish Accumulators, Futures (Tasks with Return Values), Dataflow Programming, Data-Driven Tasks |
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3 | Wed | Sep 12 | Lecture 3: Abstract vs. Real Performance, Seq clause, Forasync Loops, Loop Chunking, Forall Loops and Barrier Synchronization |
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| HW2 (due by 11:59pm on Sep 18th) |
4 | Mon | Sep 17 | Lecture 4: Parallel Prefix Sum algorithm, Parallel QuickSort, Point-to-point Synchronization, Phasers |
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5 | Wed | Sep 19 | Lecture 5: Parallel MergeSort, Parallel BitonicSor |
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| HW3 (due by 11:59pm on Sep 25th) | |
6 | Mon | Sep 24 | Lecture 6: Phaser Accumulators, Bounded Phasers, Memory Consistency Models, Summary of Deterministic Shared-Memory Parallelism |
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| Module 2: Nondeterministic Shared-Memory Parallelism | |||||||
7 | Wed | Sep 26 | Lecture 7: Actors |
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| HW4 (due by 11:59pm on Oct 2nd) |
8 | Mon | Oct 01 | Lecture 8: Systolic arrays, Systolic algorithms (*Module 3 topic) |
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9 | Wed | Oct 03 | Lecture 9: Critical sections and the Isolated statement, Monitors, Atomic Variables, Linearizability of Concurrent Objects |
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| HW5 (due by 11:59pm on Oct 9th) | |
10 | Mon | Oct 08 | Lecture 10: Linearizability of Concurrent Objects (contd), Safety and Liveness Properties |
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| Module 3: Distributed-Memory Parallelism | |||||||
11 | Wed | Oct 10 | Lecture 11: Task Affinity with Places, Message Passing Interface (MPI), demonstration of LittleFe cluster system |
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| HW6 (due by 11:59pm on Oct 16h) | |
12 | Mon | Oct 15 | Lecture 12: Cloud Computing, MapReduce, GPU Programming |
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| Module 4: Real-world Parallel Programming Models and Challenges | |||||||
13 | Wed | Oct 17 | Lecture 13: Real-World Parallel Programming Models, Course Review |
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| Take-home Final Exam (3-hour duration, due by 5pm on Oct 19th) |