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Week | Day | Date (2015) | Topic | Assigned Reading | Assigned Videos (Quizzes due by Friday of each week) | In-class Worksheets | Slides | Work Assigned | Work Due |
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1 | Mon | Jan 12 | Lecture 1: The What and Why of Parallel Programming, Task Creation and Termination (Async, Finish) | Module 1: Sections 0.1, 0.2, 1.1 | worksheet1 | lec1 |
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| Wed | Jan 14 | Lecture 2: Computation Graphs, Ideal Parallelism | Module 1: Sections 1.2, 1.3 | Topic 1.2 Lecture, Topic 1.2 Demonstration, Topic 1.3 Lecture, Topic 1.3 Demonstration |
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| Fri | Jan 16 | Lecture 3: , Abstract Performance Metrics, Multiprocessor Scheduling | Module 1: Section 1.4 | Topic 1.4 Lecture, Topic 1.4 Demonstration | Homework 1 | Lecture & demo quizzes for topics 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 | |||
2 | Mon | Jan 19 | No lecture, School Holiday (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) | ||||||
| Wed | Jan 21 | Lecture 4: Parallel Speedup and Amdahl's Law | Module 1: Section 1.5 | Topic 1.5 Lecture, Topic 1.5 Demonstration | ||||
| Fri | Jan 23 | TBD | Lecture & demo quizzes for this week | |||||
3 | Mon | Jan 26 | Lecture 5: Future Tasks, Functional Parallelism | Module 1: Section 2.1 | Topic 2.1 Lecture , Topic 2.1 Demonstration | ||||
| Wed | Jan 28 | Lecture 6: Finish Accumulators | Module 1: Section 2.3 | Topic 2.3 Lecture , Topic 2.3 Demonstration | Homework 2 | Homework 1 | |||
| Fri | Jan 30 | Lecture 7: 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 | Lecture & demo quizzes for this week | |||
4 | Mon | Feb 02 | Lecture 8: Map Reduce | Module 1: Section 2.4 | Topic 2.4 Lecture , Topic 2.4 Demonstration | ||||
| Wed | Feb 04 | Lecture 9: Memoization | Module 1: Section 2.2 | Topic 2.2 Lecture , Topic 2.2 Demonstration | ||||
| Fri | Feb 06 | Lecture 10: Abstract vs. Real Performance | Lecture & demo quizzes for this week | |||||
5 | Mon | Feb 09 | Lecture 11: Loop-Level Parallelism, Parallel Matrix Multiplication | Topic 3.1 Lecture, Topic 3.1 Demonstration, Topic 3.2 Lecture , Topic 3.2 Demonstration | |||||
| Wed | Feb 11 | Lecture 12: Iteration Grouping (Chunking), Barrier Synchronization | Topic 3.3 Lecture , Topic 3.3 Demonstration , Topic 3.4 Lecture , Topic 3.4 Demonstration | Homework 3 | Homework 2 | |||
| Fri | Feb 13 | Lecture 13: Iterative Averaging Revisited | Topic 3.5 Lecture , Topic 3.5 Demonstration , Topic 3.6 Lecture , Topic 3.6 Demonstration |
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6 | Mon | Feb 16 | Lecture 14: Data-Driven Tasks and Data-Driven Futures | Topic 4.5 Lecture , Topic 4.5 Demonstration | |||||
| Wed | Feb 18 | Lecture 15: Review of Module-1 HJ-lib API's | ||||||
| Fri | Feb 20 | Lecture 16: Point-to-point Synchronization with Phasers | Topic 4.2 Lecture , Topic 4.2 Demonstration | Lecture & demo quizzes for this week | ||||
7 | Mon | Feb 23 | Lecture 17: Phasers (contd), Signal Statement, Fuzzy Barriers | Topic 4.1 Lecture , Topic 4.1 Demonstration | |||||
| Wed | Feb 25 | Lecture 18: Midterm Summary, Take-home Exam 1 distributed | Exam 1 | |||||
| Fri | Feb 27 | No Lecture (Exam 1 due by 4pm today) | Lecture & demo quizzes for this week, Exam 1 | |||||
- | M-F | Feb 28- Mar 08 | Spring Break |
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8 | Mon | Mar 09 | Lecture 19: Critical sections, Isolated construct, Parallel Spanning Tree algorithm | Topic 5.1 Lecture, Topic 5.1 Demonstration, Topic 5.2 Lecture, Topic 5.2 Demonstration, Topic 5.3 Lecture, Topic 5.3 Demonstration |
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| Wed | Mar 11 | Lecture 20: Speculative parallelization of isolated constructs | Homework 4 | Homework 3 | ||||
| Fri | Mar 13 | Lecture 21: Read-Write Isolation, Atomic variables | Topic 5.4 Lecture , Topic 5.4 Demonstration , Topic 5.5 Lecture, Topic 5.5 Demonstration, Topic 5.6 Lecture, Topic 5.6 Demonstration | Lecture & demo quizzes for this week | ||||
9 | Mon | Mar 16 | Lecture 22: Actors | Topic 6.1 Lecture, Topic 6.1 Demonstration, Topic 6.2 Lecture, Topic 6.2 Demonstration, Topic 6.3 Lecture, Topic 6.3 Demonstration |
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| Wed | Mar 18 | Lecture 23: Actors (contd) | Topic 6.4 Lecture , Topic 6.4 Demonstration , Topic 6.5 Lecture, Topic 6.5 Demonstration, Topic 6.6 Lecture, Topic 6.6 Demonstration |
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| Fri | Mar 20 | Lecture 24: Monitors, Java Concurrent Collections, Linearizability of Concurrent Objects | Topic 7.4 Lecture |
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10 | Mon | Mar 23 | Lecture 25: Linearizability (contd), Intro to Java Threads | Topic 7.1 Lecture |
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| Wed | Mar 25 | Lecture 26: Java Threads (contd), Java synchronized statement | Topic 7.2 Lecture |
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| Fri | Mar 27 | Lecture 27: Java synchronized statement (contd), advanced locking | Topic 7.3 Lecture |
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11 | Mon | Mar 30 | Lecture 28: Safety and Liveness Properties | Topic 7.5 Lecture |
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| Wed | Apr 01 | Lecture 29: Dining Philosophers Problem | Topic 7.6 Lecture | Homework 5 | Lecture & demo quizzes for this week, Homework 4 | |||
- | Fri | Apr 03 | Midterm Recess | ||||||
12 | Mon | Apr 06 | Lecture 30: Message Passing Interface (MPI) |
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| Wed | Apr 08 | Lecture 31: Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) languages |
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| Fri | Apr 10 | Lecture 32: Message Passing Interface (MPI, contd) |
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13 | Mon | Apr 13 | Lecture 33: Task Affinity with Places |
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| Wed | Apr 15 | Lecture 34: GPU Computing | Homework 6 | Homework 5 | ||||
| Fri | Apr 17 | Lecture 35: Memory Consistency Models |
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14 | Mon | Apr 20 | Lecture 36: Comparison of Parallel Programming Models |
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| Wed | Apr 22 | NO CLASS (time allocated to work on homeworks) |
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| Fri | Apr 24 | Lecture 37: Course Review (lectures 19-35), Last day of classes | Homework 6 (penalty-free extension till May 1st) | |||||
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| April 29 - May 6 | Scheduled final exam (exact date and time TBD) |
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