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Day

Date (2014)

Topic

Reading

Videos

In-class Worksheets

Slides

Code Examples

Homework Assigned

Homework Due

1

Mon

Jan 13

Lecture 1: The What and Why of Parallel Programming, Task Creation and Termination (Async, Finish)

Module 1: Sections 0.1, 0.2, 1.1

Topic 1.1 Lecture, Topic 1.1 Demonstration

worksheet1lec1-slides

 ReciprocalArraySum.java

 

 

 

Wed

Jan 15

Lecture 2:  Computation Graphs, Ideal Parallelism, Abstract Performance Metrics

Module 1: Sections 1.2, 1.3Topic 1.2 Lecture, Topic 1.2 Demonstration, Topic 1.3 Lecture, Topic 1.3 Demonstration   

 

 

 

Fri

Jan 17

Lecture 3: Multiprocessor Scheduling

Module 1: Section 1.4Topic 1.4 Lecture, Topic 1.4 Demonstration   HW1

2

Mon

Jan 20

No lecture, School Holiday (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)

       

 

Wed

Jan 22

Lecture 4:  Parallel Speedup and Amdahl's Law

Module 1: Section 1.5Topic 1.5 Lecture, Topic 1.5 Demonstration     

 

Fri

Jan 24

Lecture 5: Data Races, Determinism, Memory Models

Module 1: Chapter 4, Section 5.1, 5.2      

3

Mon

Jan 27

Lecture 6: Data races (contd), Futures --- Tasks with Return Values

       

 

Wed

Jan 29

No lecture, Reading Assignment on Futures: Chapter 5 of Module 1 handout

Module 1: Chapter 5    

 

 

 

Fri

Jan 31

Lecture 7: Futures (contd), Parallel Design Patterns, Finish Accumulators

Module 1: Chapter 5, Chapter 6     HW1

4

Mon

Feb 03

Lecture 8: Parallel N-Queens, Parallel Prefix Sum (Array Reductions with Associative Operators)

Module 1: Chapter 7      

 

Wed

Feb 05

Lecture 9: Abstract vs. Real Performance

Module 1: Chapter 9      

 

Fri

Feb 07

Lecture 10: Abstract vs. Real Performance (contd), seq clause

Module 1: Chapter 9      

5

Mon

Feb 10

Lecture 11: Forasync Loops, Forasync Chunking

Module 1: Sections 8.1, 9.4

     

 

Wed

Feb 12

Lecture 12: Forall Loops, Barrier Synchronization

Module 1: Sections 10.1, 10.2, 10.4      

 

Fri

Feb 14

Lecture 13: Forall and Barriers, Dataflow Computing, Data-Driven Tasks

Module 1: Chapters 10, 11    

 

 

6

Mon

Feb 17

Lecture 14: Recap of HJ constructs, Point-to-point Synchronization, Pipeline Parallelism, Introduction to Phasers

Module 1: Sections 12.1, 12.2      

 

Wed

Feb 19

Lecture 15: Point-to-point Synchronization with Phasers

Module 1: Section 12.3      

 

Fri

Feb 21

Lecture 16: Phaser Accumulators, Bounded Phasers, Summary of Barriers and Phasers

Module 1: Chapter 12      

7

Mon

Feb 24

Lecture 17: Midterm Summary

       

 

Wed

Feb 26

Lecture 18: Midterm Summary (contd), Take-home Exam 1 distributed

       

 

F

Feb 28

No Lecture (Exam 1 due by 5pm today)

       

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M-F

Feb 28- Mar 09

Spring Break

 

 

  

 

 

 

8

Mon

Mar 10

Lecture 19: Critical sections, Isolated statement, Atomic variables

Module 2: Chapters 1, 2, 4, 6     

 

 

Wed

Mar 12

Lecture 20: Parallel Spanning Tree algorithm, Monitors, Java Concurrent Collections

Module 2: Chapters 3, 7     

 

 

Fri

Mar 14

Lecture 21: Actors

Module 2: Chapter 8     

 

9

Mon

Mar 17

Lecture 22: Actors (contd), Linearizability of Concurrent Objects

Module 2: Chapters 8, 9   

 

 

 

 

Wed

Mar 19

Lecture 23: Linearizability of Concurrent Objects (contd)

Module 2: Chapters 9, 10    

 

 

 

Fri

Mar 21

Lecture 24: Safety and Liveness Properties, Intro to Java Threads

Module 2: Chapters 11, 12   

 

 

 

10

Mon

Mar 24

Lecture 25: Java Threads (contd), Java synchronized statement

Module 2: Chapters 12, 13, 14   

 

 

 

 

Wed

Mar 26

Lecture 26: Java synchronized statement (contd), advanced locking

Module 2: Chapter 14     

 

 

Fri

Mar 28

Lecture 27: Speculative parallelization of isolated blocks (Guest lecture by Prof. Swarat Chaudhuri)

    

 

 

 

11

Mon

Mar 31

Lecture 28: Java Executors and Synchronizers

    

 

 

 

 

Wed

Apr 02

Lecture 29: Dining Philosophers Problem

    

 

 

 

-

Fri

Apr 04

Midterm Recess

       

12

Mon

Apr 07

Lecture 30: Task Affinity with Places

      

 

 

Wed

Apr 09

Lecture 31: More on Actors: Places, Dining Philosophers (Guest lecture by Shams Imam)

    

 

 

 

 

Fri

Apr 11

Lecture 32: Message Passing Interface (MPI)

    

 

 

 

13

Mon

Apr 14

Lecture 33: Message Passing Interface (MPI, contd)

      

 

 

Wed

Apr 16

Lecture 34: Message Passing Interface (MPI, contd)

    

 

 

 

 

Fri

Apr 18

Lecture 35: Cloud Computing, Map Reduce

    

 

 

 

14

Mon

Apr 21

Lecture 36: Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) languages (Guest lecture by Prof. John Mellor-Crummey)

     

 

 

 

Wed

Apr 23

Lecture 37: Comparison of Parallel Programming Models

    

 

 

 

 

Fri

Apr 25

Lecture 38: Course Review, Take-home Exam 2 distributed

       

-

Fri

May 02

No lectures this week — Exam 2 due by 4pm today

 

 

  

 

 

 

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Lab #

Date (2014)

Topic

Handouts

Code Examples

1

Jan 13, 15

Infrastructure setup, Async-Finish Parallel Programming

lab1-handoutHelloWorldError.java, ReciprocalArraySum.java

2-

Jan 20, 22

No lab this week — Jan 20 is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

  

2

Jan 27, 29

Abstract performance metrics with async & finish

  

3

Jan 27Feb 03, 2905

Data race detection and repair

  

4

Feb 0310, 0512

Futures, Finish Accumulators

 

 

5

Feb 1017, 1219

Real performance, work-sharing and work-stealing runtimes

  

6

Feb 1724, 1926

Barriers, Data-Driven Futures

  

-

Feb 24, 26

No lab (HW3 due, Exam 1 assigned)

 

 

7

Mar 05, 06, 07

Isolated Statement and Atomic Variables

  

8

Mar 12, 13, 14

Actors

  

9

Mar 19, 20, 21

Java Threads

  
10

Mar 26, 27, 28

Java Locks

  

-

Apr 02, 03, 04

No new lab (extra time to complete Lab 10 due to midterm recess)

  

11

Apr 09, 10, 11

Message Passing Interface (MPI)

  

12

Apr 16, 17, 18

Map Reduce

  

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