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Instructor: | Prof. Vivek Sarkar, vsarkar@rice.edu, DH 3080 (office hours by appointment) |
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| Assistant Instructor: | Dr. Jun Shirako, shirako@rice.edu, DH 3098 |
Administrative Assistant: | Annepha Pemberton, annepha@rice.edu, DH 3080, 713-348-5186 |
Lectures: | Keck 107, TTh 09:25am - 10:40am (Backup time: 4pm - 5:15pm on Fridays, DH 3076) |
Introduction
Are you curious about what makes a parallelizing compiler tick, and what program properties enable or prevent software from executing efficiently on vector and parallel computers?
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- Lecture 1 (08/25/2015): Compiler Challenges for High Performance Architectures (Chapter 1)
- NO CLASS (08/27/2015): Rescheduled to 08/28/2015 below
- ** Lecture 2 (08/28/2015, 4pm, DH 3076): Dependence: Theory and Practice (Chapter 2), Homework 1 assigned, due by 09/08/2015
- Lecture 3 (09/01/2015): Dependence: Theory and Practice (Chapter 2, contd)
- Lecture 4 (09/03/2015): Dependence Testing (Chapter 3)
- Lecture 5 (09/08/2015): Dependence Testing (Chapter 3, contd), Homework 2 assigned, due by 09/22/2015
- NO CLASS (09/10/2015): Work on problem statement for your class projects
- Lecture 6 (09/15/2015): Dependence Testing (Chapter 3, contd), Preliminary Transformations (Chapter 4)
- Lecture 7 (09/17/2015): Preliminary Transformations (Chapter 4, contd), Vectorization Algorithm (Chapter 2)
- Lecture 8 (09/22/2015): Vectorization Algorithm (Chapter 2, contd), Enhancing Fine-Grained Parallelism (Chapter 5), Homework 3 assigned, due by 10/08/2015
- Lecture 9 (09/24/2015): Enhancing Fine-Grained Parallelism (Chapter 5, contd)
- Lecture 10 (09/29/2015): Enhancing Fine-Grained Parallelism (Chapter 5, contd), Coarse-Grained Parallelism (Chapter 6)
- NO CLASS (10/01/2015): Work on class project
- Lecture 11 (10/06/2015): Coarse-Grained Parallelism (Chapter 6, contd), Optimal Weighted Loop Fusion for Parallel Programs
- NO CLASS (10/08/2015): Homework 3 due, self-study, work on project
- NO CLASS (10/13/2015): MIDTERM RECESS (discuss project with instructor)
- Lecture 12 (10/15/2015): Midterm Review, Take-home Exam 1 assigned, due by 10/22/2015
- Lecture 13 (10/20/2015): Control Dependence (Chapter 7)
- NO CLASS (10/22/2015): Work on class project, Exam 1 due
- Lecture 14 (10/27/2015): Pipeline Parallelism, OpenMP 4.1 Doacross construct (guest lecture by Dr. Jun Shirako), Homework 4 assigned, due by 11/10/2015
- Lecture 15 (10/29/2015): Control Dependence (Chapter 7, contd), Compiler Improvement of Register Usage (Chapter 8)
- Lecture 16 (11/03/2015): Compiler Improvement of Register Usage (Chapter 8, contd), Managing Cache (Chapter 9)
- Lecture 18 (11/05/2015): Managing Cache (Chapter 9, contd), Homework 4 assigned, due by 11/24/2015
- Lecture 19 (11/10/2015): Unimodular Transformations, Homework 5 assigned, due by 11/24/2015
- Lecture 20 (11/12/2015): Polyhedral Transformations
- Lecture 21 (11/17/2015): Compiling Array Assignments (Chapter 13)
- NO CLASS (11/19/2015): Self-study, work on project
- Lecture 22 (11/24/2015): End-Semester Summary (Chapters 7, 8, 9, 13), Homework 6 5 assigned, due by 12/03/2015
- NO CLASS (11/26/2015): THANKSGIVING
- Lecture 23 (12/01/2015): Student project presentations
- Lecture 24 (12/03/2015): Student project presentations, Take-home Exam 2 assigned, due by 12/10/2015
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