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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, Parallel Array Sum | lec1-audio | HW0 (due by 11:59pm on Tuesday, Sep 11th) | ||
2 | Mon | Sep 10 | Lecture 2: Parallel Array Sum (contd), Amdahl's Law, Weak vs. Strong Scaling, Data Races and Determinism |
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3 | Wed | Sep 12 | Lecture 3: Finish Accumulators, Futures (Tasks with Return Values), Dataflow Programming, Data-Driven Tasks, DeadlockAbstract vs. Real Performance, Seq clause, Forall Loops, Loop Chunking, Barrier Synchronization |
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| HW1 (due by 11:59pm on Tuesday, Sep 18th) |
4 | Mon | Sep 17 | Lecture 4: Collective and Point-to-point Synchronization with Phasers, Phased Forasync Loops, Phaser Accumulators |
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5 | Wed | Sep 19 | Lecture 5: Parallel MergeSort, Parallel BitonicSort |
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| HW2 (due by 11:59pm on Tuesday, Sep 25th) | |
| Module 2: Nondeterministic Shared-Memory Parallelism | |||||||
6 | Mon | Sep 24 | Lecture 6: Critical sections and the Isolated statement, Monitors, Atomic Variables |
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7 | Wed | Sep 26 | Lecture 7: Actors |
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| HW3 (due by 11:59pm on Tuesday, Oct 2nd) |
8 | Mon | Oct 01 | Lecture 8: Systolic arrays, Systolic algorithms |
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9 | Wed | Oct 03 | Lecture 9: Linearizability of Concurrent Objects, Safety and Liveness Properties |
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| HW4 (due by 11:59pm on Tuesday, Oct 9th) | |
| Module 3: Distributed-Memory Parallelism | |||||||
10 | Mon | Oct 08 | Lecture 10: Task Affinity with Places, Message Passing Interface (MPI) |
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11 | Wed | Oct 10 | Lecture 11: MPI (contd), Cloud Computing and MapReduce, GPU Programming |
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| HW5 (due by 11:59pm on Tuesday, Oct 16h) | |
| Module 4: Real-world Parallel Programming Models and Challenges | |||||||
12 | Mon | Oct 15 | Lecture 12: Parallel Programming Patterns, Comparison of Parallel Programming Models |
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13 | Wed | Oct 17 | Lecture 13: Memory Consistency Models, Course Review |
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| Take-home Final Exam (3-hour duration, due by 5pm on Oct 19th) |