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| Day | Date (2011) | Topic | Handouts | Slides | Homework Assigned | Homework Due |
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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: Linearizability of Concurrent Objects |
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22 | Mon | Mar 14 | Lecture 22: Task Affinity with Places |
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23 | Wed | Mar 16 | Lecture 23: Task Affinity with Places, contd. |
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24 | Fri | Mar 18 | Lecture 24: Map Reduce |
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25 | Mon | Mar 21 | Lecture 25: Dataflow Programming and Data-Driven Futures |
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26 | Wed | Mar 23 | Lecture 26: Dataflow Programming with Intel Concurrent Collections |
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- | Fri | Mar 25 | Midterm Recess |
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27 | Mon | Mar 28 | Lecture 27: Java Threads |
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28 | Wed | Mar 30 | Lecture 28: Java Threads (contd), synchronized statement |
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29 | Fri | Apr 01 | Lecture 29: Java synchronized statement with wait/notify |
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30 | Mon | Apr 04 | Lecture 30: Advanced locking in Java |
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31 | Wed | Apr 06 | Lecture 31: Java Executors and Synchronizers |
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32 | Fri | Apr 08 | Lecture 32: Volatile Variables and Java Memory Model |
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33 | Mon | Apr 11 | Lecture 33: GPGPU programming with CUDA |
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34 | Wed | Apr 13 | Lecture 34: CUDA contd. |
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35 | Fri | Apr 15 | Lecture 35: Liveness and Progress Guarantees |
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36 | Mon | Apr 18 | Lecture 36: Introduction to MPI |
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37 | Wed | Apr 20 | Lecture 37: Introduction to MPI (contd) |
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38 | Fri | Apr 22 | Lecture 38: Course Summary |
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Lab # | Date (2011) | Topic | Handouts |
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1 | Jan 11, 12 | Infrastructure setup | |
2 | Jan 18, 19 | Abstract performance metrics with async & finish | |
3 | Jan 25, 26 | Data race detection | |
4 | Feb 01, 02 | Points, regions, forall loops | |
5 | Feb 08, 09 | Abstract vs Real Performance, Work-sharing & Work-stealing schedulers | |
6 | Feb 15, 16 | Barriers and Phasers | |
- | Feb 22, 23 | No lab (midterm week) |
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7 | Mar 08, 09 | Atomic Variables | |
8 | Mar 15, 16 | Places | |
9 | Mar 22, 23 | Data Driven Tasks | |
10 | Mar 29, 30 | Java Concurrency I | |
11 | Apr 05, 06 | Java Concurrency II | |
12 | Apr 12, 13 | CUDA | |
13 | Apr 19, 20 | MPI |
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