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Week | Day | Date (2013) | Topic | Reading | Slides | Audio (Panopto) | Code Examples | Homework Assigned | Homework Due |
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1 | Mon | Jan 7 | Lecture 1: The What and Why of Parallel Programming | Module 1: Sections1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2 |
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| Wed | Jan 9 | Lecture 2: Async-Finish Parallel Programming, Data & Control Flow with Async Tasks, Computation Graphs | Module 1: Sections 1.3, 3.1, 3.2 | lec2-audio |
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| Fri | Jan 11 | Lecture 3: Computation Graphs (contd), Parallel Speedup, Strong Scaling, Abstract Performance Metrics | Module 1: Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 | lec3-slides | ArraySum1.hj | |||
2 | Mon | Jan 14 | Lecture 4: Abstract Performance Metrics (contd), Parallel Efficiency, Amdahl's Law, Weak Scaling | Module 1: Sections 3.3, 3.4 | lec4-slides | lec4-audio | Search2.hj | ||
| Wed | Jan 16 | Lecture 5: Data Races, Determinism, Memory Models | Module 1: Chapter 4 | lec5-slides | ||||
| Fri | Jan 18 | Lecture 6: Data races (contd), Futures --- Tasks with Return Values | Module 1: Chapter 4, Section 5.1, 5.2 | lec6-slides | lec6-audio | |||
3 | Mon | Jan 21 | No lecture, School Holiday (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) | ||||||
| Wed | Jan 23 | No lecture, Reading Assignment on Futures: Chapter 5 of Module 1 handout | Module 1: Chapter 5 | HW1 (due by 5pm on Jan 23rd) | ||||
| Fri | Jan 25 | Lecture 7: Futures (contd), Parallel Design Patterns, Finish Accumulators | Module 1: Chapter 5, Chapter 6 | lec7-slides | ||||
4 | Mon | Jan 28 | Lecture 8: Parallel N-Queens, Parallel Prefix Sum (Array Reductions with Associative Operators) | Module 1: Chapter 7 | lec8-slides | lec8-audio | |||
| Wed | Jan 30 | Lecture 9: Abstract vs. Real Performance | Module 1: Chapter 9 | lec9-slides | lec9-audio | |||
| Fri | Feb 1 | Lecture 10: Abstract vs. Real Performance (contd), seq clause | Module 1: Chapter 9 | lec10-slides | lec10-audio | |||
5 | Mon | Feb 04 | Lecture 11: Forasync Loops, Forasync Chunking | Module 1: Sections 8.1, 9.4 | lec11-slides | ||||
| Wed | Feb 06 | Lecture 12: Forall Loops, Barrier Synchronization | Module 1: Sections 10.1, 10.2, 10.4 | lec12-slides | HW2 (due by 5pm on Feb 7th) | |||
| Fri | Feb 08 | Lecture 13: Forall and Barriers, Dataflow Computing, Data-Driven Tasks | Module 1: Chapters 10, 11 | lec13-slides | lec13-audio | |||
6 | Mon | Feb 11 | Lecture 14: Recap of HJ constructs, Point-to-point Synchronization, Pipeline Parallelism, Introduction to Phasers | Module 1: Sections 12.1, 12.2 | lec14-slides | lec14-audio | |||
| Wed | Feb 13 | Lecture 15: Point-to-point Synchronization with Phasers | Module 1: Section 12.3 | lec15-slides | ||||
| Fri | Feb 15 | Lecture 16: Phaser Accumulators, Bounded Phasers, Summary of Barriers and Phasers | Module 1: Chapter 12 | lec16-slides | ||||
7 | Mon | Feb 18 | Lecture 17: Midterm Summary | lec17-slides | |||||
| Wed | Feb 20 | Lecture 18: Midterm Summary (contd), Take-home Exam 1 distributed | lec18-slides | |||||
| F | Feb 22 | No Lecture (Exam 1 due by 5pm today) | HW3 (due by 11:55pm on Feb 22nd) | |||||
- | M-F | Feb 25- Mar 01 | Spring Break |
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8 | Mon | Mar 04 | Lecture 19: Critical sections and the Isolated statement | lec19-slides |
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| Wed | Mar 06 | Lecture 20: Isolated statement (contd), Monitors, Actors | HW4 |
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| Fri | Mar 08 | Lecture 21: Actors (contd) |
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9 | Mon | Mar 11 | Lecture 22: Linearizability of Concurrent Objects |
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| Wed | Mar 13 | Lecture 23: Linearizability of Concurrent Objects (contd) |
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| Fri | Mar 15 | Lecture 24: Safety and Liveness Properties |
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10 | Mon | Mar 18 | Lecture 25: Parallel Programming Patterns |
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| Wed | Mar 20 | Lecture 26: Introduction to Java Threads | HW5 | HW4 (due by 11:55pm on March 20th) | ||||
| Fri | Mar 22 | Lecture 27: Bitonic Sort |
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11 | Mon | Mar 25 | Lecture 28: Java Threads (contd), Java synchronized statement |
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| Wed | Mar 27 | Lecture 29: Java synchronized statement (contd), advanced locking |
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- | Fri | Mar 29 | Midterm Recess | ||||||
12 | Mon | Apr 01 | Lecture 30: Java Executors and Synchronizers |
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| Wed | Apr 03 | Lecture 31: Volatile Variables and Java Memory Model |
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| Fri | Apr 05 | Lecture 32: Message Passing Interface (MPI) |
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13 | Mon | Apr 08 | Lecture 33: Message Passing Interface (MPI, contd) |
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| Wed | Apr 10 | Lecture 34: Cloud Computing, Map Reduce |
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| Fri | Apr 12 | Lecture 35: Map Reduce (contd) |
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14 | Mon | Apr 15 | Lecture 36: Speculative parallelization of isolated blocks |
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| Wed | Apr 17 | Lecture 37: Comparison of Parallel Programming Models |
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| Fri | Apr 19 | Lecture 38: Course Review, Take-home Exam 2 distributed | HW6 (due by 11:55pm on April 19th, penalty-free extension till April 26th) | |||||
- | Fri | Apr 25 | No Lecture (Exam 2 due by 5pm today) |
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Lab # | Date (2013) | Topic | Handouts | Code Examples | ||
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1 | Jan 08, 09, 10 | Infrastructure setup, Async-Finish Parallel Programming | lab1-handout | HelloWorldError.hj, ReciprocalArraySum.hj | ||
2 | Jan 15, 16, 17 | Abstract performance metrics with async & finish | lab2-handout | ArraySum1.hj, Search2.hj, ArraySum3.hj | ||
3 | Jan 22, 23, 24 | Data race detection and repair | lab3-handout | RacyArraySum1.hj, RacyFib.hj, RacyParSearch.hj, RacyFannkuch.hj | ||
4 | Jan 29, 30, 31 | Futures, Finish Accumulators | lab4-handout | ArraySum2.hj, ArraySum4.hj, binarytrees.hj | ||
5 | Feb 05, 06, 07 | Real performance, work-sharing and work-stealing runtimes | nqueens.hj, OneDimAveraging.hj | |||
6 | Feb 12, 13, 14 | Barriers, Data-Driven Futures | lab6-handout | Data-Driven Future Examples: TestAsyncDDF0.hj, TestAsyncDDF2.hj | ||
- | Feb 19, 20, 21 | No lab (HW3 due, Exam 1 assigned) |
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7 | Mar 05, 06, 07 | Isolated Statement and Atomic Variables and Isolated Statement | lab7-handout | spanning_tree_seq.hj, SortedListExampleGbl.hj | ||
8 | Mar 12, 13, 14 | Actors | ||||
9 | Mar 19, 20, 21 | Java Threads | ||||
10 | Mar 26, 27, 28 | Java Locks | ||||
11 | Apr 02, 03, 04 | Message Passing Interface (MPI) | ||||
12 | Apr 09, 10, 11 | Map Reduce | ||||
- | Apr 16, 17, 18 | No lab (HW6 due, Exam 2 assigned) |
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