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Instructor: | Prof. Vivek Sarkar, DH 3131 | Graduate TA: | Kumud Bhandari |
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| Please send all emails to comp322-staff at rice dot edu | Graduate TA: | |
Assistant: | Sherry Nassar, sherry.nassar@rice.edu, DH 3137 | Graduate TA: | Sriraj Paul |
| Graduate TA: | Rishi Surendran | ||
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| Undergrad TA: | Annirudh Prasad |
Cross-listing: | ELEC 323 | Undergrad TA: | Yunming Zhang |
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| HJ consultants: | Vincent Cavé, Shams Imam |
Lectures: | Herzstein Hall 212 | Lecture times: | MWF 1:00 - 1:50pm |
Labs: | Ryon 102 | Lab times: | Tuesday, 4:00 - 5:15pm (Section 3, TAs: Kumud Bhandari, Yunming Zhang) |
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| Wednesday, 3:30 - 4:50pm (Section 2, TAs: Deepak Majeti, Sriraj Paul) |
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| Thursday, 4:00 - 5:15pm (Section 1: Annirudh Prasad, Rishi Surendran) |
Course Objectives
The goal of COMP 322 is to introduce you to the fundamentals of parallel programming and parallel algorithms, using a pedagogic approach that exposes you to the intellectual challenges in parallel software without enmeshing you in the jargon and lower-level details of today's parallel systems. A strong grasp of the course fundamentals will enable you to quickly pick up any specific parallel programming model that you may encounter in the future, and also prepare you for studying advanced topics related to parallelism and concurrency in more advanced courses such as COMP 422.
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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) | |||||
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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, ActorsJava Concurrent Collections | lec20-slides | HW4, hw_4.zip |
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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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