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1 | Mon | Jan 10 | Lecture 1: The What and Why of Parallel Programming |
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2 | Wed | Jan 12 | Lecture 2: Task Creation & Termination using Async & Finish |
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3 | Fri | Jan 14 | Lecture 3: Computation Graphs, Abstract Performance Metrics | lec3-handout | HW1 | ||
- | Mon | Jan 17 | School Holiday |
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4 | Wed | Jan 19 | Lecture 4: Futures --- Tasks with Return Values |
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5 | Fri | Jan 21 | Lecture 5: Parallel Array Sum and Array Reductions |
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6 | Mon | Jan 24 | Lecture 6: Data Races and How to Avoid Them |
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7 | Wed | Jan 26 | Lecture 7: Parallel Quicksort, Parallel Prefix Sum |
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8 | Fri | Jan 28 | Lecture 8: PRAM model, Amdahl's Law |
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9 | Mon | Jan 31 | Lecture 9: Forall parallel loops, Data parallelism |
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10 | Wed | Feb 02 | Lecture 10: Critical sections and the Isolated statement |
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11 | Fri | Feb 04 | Lecture 11: Overheads --- from Abstract Performance to Real Performance |
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12 | Mon | Feb 07 | Lecture 12: Java Atomic Variables |
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13 | Wed | Feb 09 | Lecture 13: Guest Lecture (John Mellor-Crummey) |
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14 | Fri | Feb 11 | Lecture 14: Guest Lecture (John Mellor-Crummey) |
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15 | Mon | Feb 14 | Lecture 15: Barrier Synchronization (Phasers I) |
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16 | Wed | Feb 16 | Lecture 16: Split-phase Barriers (Phasers II) |
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17 | Fri | Feb 18 | Lecture 17: Point-to-point Synchronization (Phasers III) |
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18 | Mon | Feb 21 | Lecture 18: Successive Over Relaxation case study |
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19 | Wed | Feb 23 | Lecture 19: Midterm Summary |
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- | Fri | Feb 25 | No lecture, Exam1 due today |
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| HW5 (Written Assignment) | Midterm Exam (Take-home) |
- | M-F | Feb 28 - Mar 04 | Spring Break |
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20 | Mon | Mar 07 | Lecture 20: Map Reduce |
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21 | Wed | Mar 09 | Lecture 21: Generalized Scan |
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22 | Fri | Mar 11 | Lecture 22: Task Affinity with Places |
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| HW6 (Programming Assignment) | HW5 |
23 | Mon | Mar 14 | Lecture 23: Task Affinity with Places, contd. |
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24 | Wed | Mar 16 | Lecture 24: Bounded Buffers |
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25 | Fri | Mar 18 | Lecture 25: Java Concurrent Collections |
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26 | Mon | Mar 21 | Lecture 26: Data Flow Programming |
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27 | Wed | Mar 23 | Lecture 27: Data Flow Programming, contd |
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- | Fri | Mar 25 | Midterm Recess |
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28 | Mon | Mar 28 | Lecture 28: Java Threads |
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29 | Wed | Mar 30 | Lecture 29: GUI Applications |
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30 | Fri | Apr 01 | Lecture 30: Java Executors |
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| HW7 (Programming Assignment) | HW6 |
31 | Mon | Apr 04 | Lecture 31: Java Locks & Conditions |
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32 | Wed | Apr 06 | Lecture 32: Java Synchronizers |
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33 | Fri | Apr 08 | Lecture 33: Deadlock, Livelock, Liveness |
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34 | Mon | Apr 11 | Lecture 34: Java Memory Model and Volatile Variables |
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35 | Wed | Apr 13 | Lecture 35: GPGPU programming with CUDA |
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36 | Fri | Apr 15 | Lecture 36: CUDA contd. |
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37 | Mon | Apr 18 | Lecture 37: Distributed-memory programming with MPI |
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38 | Wed | Apr 20 | Lecture 38: MPI contd. |
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39 | Fri | Apr 22 | Lecture 39: Course Summary |
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| Final Exam (Take-home) | HW7 |
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