COMP 322: Fundamentals of Parallel Programming (Spring 2024)
Instructor |
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Staff:
Sanjay Chatterjee (DH 2068)
: | Mackale Joyner, DH 2063 | TAs: | Haotian Dang, Andrew Ondara, Stefan Boskovic, Huzaifa Ali, Raahim Absar |
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Piazza site: | https://piazza.com/rice/spring2024/comp322 (Piazza is the preferred medium for all course communications) | Cross-listing: | ELEC 323 |
Lecture location: | Herzstein Amp | Lecture times |
Christopher Nunu
Max Grossman
Lectures:
Duncan Hall (DH) 1042
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00pm - |
1:50pm |
Labs:
Ryon 102
Times:
Lab locations: | Mon (Brockman 101) Tue (Herzstein Amp) | Lab times: | Mon 3:00pm - 3:50pm ( |
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SB, HA, AO) Tue 4:00pm - 4: |
Introduction
50pm (RA, HD) |
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.
Course Objectives
The primary The goal of COMP 322 is to introduce you to the fundamentals of parallel programming and parallel algorithms, using by following a pedagogical pedagogic approach that exposes you to the intellectual challenges in parallel software without enmeshing you in lowthe jargon and lower-level details of different parallel systems. To that end, the main pre-requisite course requirement is COMP 211 or equivalent. This course today's parallel systems. A strong grasp of the course fundamentals will enable you to quickly pick up any specific parallel programming system that you may encounter in the future, and also prepare you for studying advanced topics related to parallelism and concurrency in courses such as COMP 422.
The desired learning outcomes fall into three major areas:
1) Parallelism: functional programming, Java streams, creation and coordination of parallelism (async, finish), abstract performance metrics (work, critical paths), Amdahl's Law, weak vs. strong scaling, data races and determinism, data race avoidance (immutability, futures, accumulators, dataflow), deadlock avoidance, abstract vs. real performance (granularity, scalability), collective & point-to-point synchronization (phasers, barriers), parallel algorithms, systolic algorithms.
2) Concurrency: critical sections, atomicity, isolation, high level data races, nondeterminism, linearizability, liveness/progress guarantees, actors, request-response parallelism, Java Concurrency, locks, condition variables, semaphores, memory consistency models.
3) Locality & Distribution: memory hierarchies, locality, data movement, message-passing, MapReduce
To achieve these learning outcomes, each class period will include time for both instructor lectures and in-class exercises based on assigned reading and videos. The lab exercises will be used to help students gain hands-on programming experience with the concepts introduced in the lectures.
To ensure that students gain a strong knowledge of parallel programming foundations, the classes and homework will place equal emphasis on both theory and practice. The programming component of the course will use the Habanero-Java Library (HJ-lib) pedagogic extension to the Java language developed in the Habanero Extreme Scale Software Research project at Rice University. The course will also introduce you to real-world parallel programming models including Java Concurrency, MapReduce. An important goal is that, at the end of COMP 322, you should feel comfortable programming in any parallel language for which you are familiar with the underlying sequential language (Java or C). Any parallel programming primitives that you encounter in the future should be easily recognizable based on the fundamentals studied in COMP 322.
Prerequisite
The prerequisite course requirements are COMP 182 and COMP 215. COMP 322 should be accessible to anyone familiar with the foundations of sequential algorithms and data structures, and with basic Java programming. COMP 221 is COMP 321 is also recommended as a co-requisitie.
Course Schedule
requisite.
Textbooks and Other Resources
There are no required textbooks for the class. Instead, lecture handouts are provided for each module as follows. You are expected to read the relevant sections in each lecture handout before coming to the lecture. We will also provide a number of references in the slides and handouts.The links to the latest versions of the lecture handouts are included below:
- Module 1 handout (Parallelism)
- Module 2 handout (Concurrency)
There are also a few optional textbooks that we will draw from during the course. You are encouraged to get copies of any or all of these books. They will serve as useful references both during and after this course:
- Fork-Join Parallelism with a Data-Structures Focus (FJP) by Dan Grossman (Chapter 7 in Topics in Parallel and Distributed Computing)
- Java Concurrency in Practice by Brian Goetz with Tim Peierls, Joshua Bloch, Joseph Bowbeer, David Holmes and Doug Lea
- Principles of Parallel Programming by Calvin Lin and Lawrence Snyder
- The Art of Multiprocessor Programming by Maurice Herlihy and Nir Shavit
Lecture Schedule
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Day | Date ( |
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Topic
Lecture | Assigned Reading | Assigned Videos (see Canvas site for video links) | In-class Worksheets | Slides |
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Work Assigned |
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Work Due | Worksheet Solutions | |
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1 | Mon | Jan |
08 | Lecture 1: |
Introduction | worksheet1 | lec1- |
2
slides | WS1-solution | |||
Wed | Jan |
10 | Lecture 2: Functional Programming |
3
worksheet2 |
lec02-slides | WS2-solution | |||
Fri | Jan |
12 | Lecture 3: Higher order functions | worksheet3 | lec3-slides | WS3-solution | |||||
2 |
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Mon | Jan |
School Holiday
15 | No class: MLK | ||||||||||
Wed | Jan 17 | Lecture 4: Lazy Computation | worksheet4 | lec4-slides | WS4-solution | ||||||
Fri |
4
Jan 19 |
5
Fri
Jan 21
6
Mon
Jan 24
7
Wed
Jan 26
8
Fri
Jan 28
9
Mon
Jan 31
10
Wed
Feb 02
11
Fri
Feb 04
12
Mon
Feb 07
13
Wed
Feb 09
14
Fri
Feb 11
15
Mon
Feb 14
16
Wed
Feb 16
17
Fri
Feb 18
18
Mon
Feb 21
19
Wed
Feb 23
20
Fri
Feb 25
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M-F
Feb 28 - Mar 04
Spring Break
21
Mon
Mar 07
22
Wed
Mar 09
23
Fri
Mar 11
24
Mon
Mar 14
25
Wed
Mar 16
26
Fri
Mar 18
27
Mon
Mar 21
28
Wed
Mar 23
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Fri
Mar 25
Midterm Recess
29
Mon
Mar 28
30
Wed
Mar 30
31
Fri
Apr 01
32
Mon
Apr 04
33
Wed
Apr 06
34
Fri
Apr 08
35
Mon
Apr 11
36
Wed
Apr 13
37
Fri
Apr 15
38
Mon
Apr 18
39
Wed
Apr 20
40
Fri
Apr 22
Grading, Honor Code Policy, Processes and Procedures
Questions
Other Resources
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Lecture 5: Java Streams | worksheet5 | lec5-slides | Homework 1 | WS5-solution | |||||||
3 | Mon | Jan 22 | 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 24 | Lecture 7: Futures | Module 1: Section 2.1 | Topic 2.1 Lecture , Topic 2.1 Demonstration | worksheet7 | lec7-slides | WS7-solution | ||||
Fri | Jan 26 | 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 29 | 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 | Jan 31 | Lecture 10: Event-based programming model | worksheet10 | lec10-slides | Homework 1 | WS10-solution | |||||
Fri | Feb 02 | 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 05 | 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 07 | 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 09 | No class: Spring Recess | |||||||||
6 | Mon | Feb 12 | 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 14 | Lecture 15: Limitations of Functional parallelism. | worksheet15 | lec15-slides | Homework 2 | WS15-solution | |||||
Fri | Feb 16 | Lecture 16: Recursive Task Parallelism | worksheet16 | lec16-slides | Homework 3 | WS16-solution | |||||
7 | Mon | Feb 19 | Lecture 17: Midterm Review | lec17-slides | |||||||
Wed | Feb 21 | Lecture 18: Midterm Review | lec18-slides | ||||||||
Fri | Feb 23 | Lecture 19: Fork/Join programming model. OS Threads. Scheduler Pattern | Topic 2.7 Lecture, Topic 2.7 Demonstration, Topic 2.8 Lecture, Topic 2.8 Demonstration | worksheet19 | lec19-slides | WS19-solution | |||||
8 | Mon | Feb 26 | Lecture 20: 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 | worksheet20 | lec20-slides | WS20-solution | |||
Wed | Feb 28 | Lecture 21: Barrier Synchronization with Phasers | Module 1: Sections 3.4 | Topic 3.4 Lecture, Topic 3.4 Demonstration | worksheet21 | lec21-slides | WS21-solution | ||||
Fri | Mar 01 | Lecture 22: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 | worksheet22 | lec22-slides | WS22-solution | ||||
9 | Mon | Mar 04 | Lecture 23: Fuzzy Barriers with Phasers | Module 1: Section 4.1 | Topic 4.1 Lecture, Topic 4.1 Demonstration | worksheet23 | lec23-slides | Homework 3 (CP 1) | WS23-solution | ||
Wed | Mar 06 | 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 08 | 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 11 | No class: Spring Break | |||||||||
Wed | Mar 13 | No class: Spring Break | |||||||||
Fri | Mar 15 | No class: Spring Break | |||||||||
10 | Mon | Mar 18 | Lecture 26: Java Threads and Locks | Module 2: Sections 7.1, 7.3 | Topic 7.1 Lecture, Topic 7.3 Lecture | worksheet26 | lec26-slides | WS26-solution | |||
Wed | Mar 20 | Lecture 27: Read-Write Locks, Soundness and progress guarantees | Module 2: Section 7.3 | Topic 7.3 Lecture, Topic 7.5 Lecture | worksheet27 | lec27-slides | Homework 3 (CP 2) | WS27-solution | |||
Fri | Mar 22 | Lecture 28: Dining Philosophers Problem | Topic 7.6 Lecture | worksheet28 | lec28-slides | WS28-solution | |||||
11 | Mon | Mar 25 | Lecture 29: Linearizability of Concurrent Objects | Module 2: Sections 7.4 | Topic 7.4 Lecture | worksheet29 | lec29-slides | WS29-solution | |||
Wed | Mar 27 | Lecture 30: Parallel Spanning Tree, other graph algorithms | worksheet30 | lec30-slides | WS30-solution | ||||||
Fri | Mar 29 | 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 01 | 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 | Homework 4 | Homework 3 (All) | WS32-solution | |
Wed | Apr 03 | Lecture 33: Task Affinity and locality. Memory hierarchy | worksheet33 | lec33-slides | WS33-solution | ||||||
Fri | Apr 05 | Lecture 34: Eureka-style Speculative Task Parallelism | worksheet34 | lec34-slides | WS34-solution | ||||||
13 | Mon | Apr 08 | No class: Solar Eclipse | ||||||||
Wed | Apr 10 | Lecture 35: Scan Pattern. Parallel Prefix Sum | worksheet35 | lec35-slides | Homework 4 (CP 1) | WS35-solution | |||||
Fri | Apr 12 | Lecture 36: Parallel Prefix Sum applications | worksheet36 | lec36-slides | WS36-solution | ||||||
14 | Mon | Apr 15 | Lecture 37: Overview of other models and frameworks | lec37-slides | |||||||
Wed | Apr 17 | Lecture 38: Course Review (Lectures 19-34) | lec38-slides | Homework 4 (All) | |||||||
Fri | Apr 19 | Lecture 39: Course Review (Lectures 19-34) | lec39-slides |
Lab Schedule
Lab # | Date (2023) | Topic | Handouts | Examples |
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1 | Jan 08 | Infrastructure setup | lab0-handout lab1-handout | |
- | Jan 15 | No lab this week (MLK) | ||
2 | Jan 22 | Functional Programming | lab2-handout | |
3 | Jan 29 | Futures | lab3-handout | |
4 | Feb 05 | Data-Driven Tasks | lab4-handout | |
- | Feb 12 | No lab this week | ||
- | Feb 19 | No lab this week (Midterm Exam) | ||
5 | Feb 26 | Loop Parallelism | lab5-handout | image kernels |
6 | Mar 04 | Recursive Task Cutoff Strategy | lab6-handout | |
- | Mar 11 | No lab this week (Spring Break) | ||
7 | Mar 18 | Java Threads | lab7-handout | |
8 | Mar 25 | Concurrent Lists | lab8-handout | |
9 | Apr 01 | Actors | lab9-handout | |
- | Apr 08 | No lab this week (Solar Eclipse) | ||
- | Apr 15 | No lab this week |
Grading, Honor Code Policy, Processes and Procedures
Grading will be based on your performance on four homework assignments (weighted 40% in all), two exams (weighted 40% in all), lab exercises (weighted 10% in all), online quizzes (weighted 5% in all), and in-class worksheets (weighted 5% in all).
The purpose of the homework is to give you practice in solving problems that deepen your understanding of concepts introduced in class. Homework is due on the dates and times specified in the course schedule. No late submissions (other than those using slip days mentioned below) will be accepted.
The slip day policy for COMP 322 is similar to that of COMP 321. All students will be given 3 slip days to use throughout the semester. When you use a slip day, you will receive up to 24 additional hours to complete the assignment. You may use these slip days in any way you see fit (3 days on one assignment, 1 day each on 3 assignments, etc.). Slip days will be tracked using the README.md file. Other than slip days, no extensions will be given unless there are exceptional circumstances (such as severe sickness, not because you have too much other work). Such extensions must be requested and approved by the instructor (via e-mail, phone, or in person) before the due date for the assignment. Last minute requests are likely to be denied.
Labs must be submitted by the following Monday at 3pm. Labs must be checked off by a TA.
Worksheets should be completed by the deadline listed in Canvas so that solutions to the worksheets can be discussed in the next class.
You will be expected to follow the Honor Code in all homework and exams. The following policies will apply to different work products in the course:
- In-class worksheets: You are free to discuss all aspects of in-class worksheets with your other classmates, the teaching assistants and the professor during the class. You can work in a group and write down the solution that you obtained as a group. If you work on the worksheet outside of class (e.g., due to an absence), then it must be entirely your individual effort, without discussion with any other students. If you use any material from external sources, you must provide proper attribution.
- Weekly lab assignments: You are free to discuss all aspects of lab assignments with your other classmates, the teaching assistants and the professor during the lab. However, all code and reports that you submit are expected to be the result of your individual effort. If you work on the lab outside of class (e.g., due to an absence), then it must be entirely your individual effort, without discussion with any other students. If you use any material from external sources, you must provide proper attribution (as shown here).
- Homework: All submitted homework is expected to be the result of your individual effort. You are free to discuss course material and approaches to problems with your other classmates, the teaching assistants and the professor, but you should never misrepresent someone else’s work as your own. If you use any material from external sources, you must provide proper attribution.
- Quizzes: Each online quiz will be an open-notes individual test. The student may consult their course materials and notes when taking the quizzes, but may not consult any other external sources.
- Exams: Each exam will be a open-book, open-notes, and open-computer individual test, which must be completed within a specified time limit. No external materials may be consulted when taking the exams.
For grade disputes, please send an email to the course instructors within 7 days of receiving your grade. The email subject should include COMP 322 and the assignment. Please provide enough information in the email so that the instructor does not need to perform a checkout of your code.
Accommodations for Students with Special Needs
Students with disabilities are encouraged to contact me during the first two weeks of class regarding any special needs. Students with disabilities should also contact Disabled Student Services in the Ley Student Center and the Rice Disability Support Services.