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Instructor:

Prof. Vivek Sarkar, DH 3131

Graduate TA:

Sanjay Chatterjee 

 

Please send all emails to comp322-staff at rice dot edu

Graduate TA:

Raghavan Raman

 

 

Undergrad TA:

Christopher Nunu

Assistant:

Amanda Nokleby, akn3@rice.edu, DH 3122 3137

Undergrad TA:

Max Grossman

 

 

Research Programmer:

Vincent Cave

Lectures:

Duncan Hall (DH) 1042

Time:

MWF 1:00-01:50pm

Labs:

Ryon 102

Times:

Tuesday 2:30-3:50pm (Sec 1), Wednesday 3:30-4:50pm (Sec 2)

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Day

Date (2011)

Topic

Handouts

Slides

Homework Assigned

Homework Due

1

Mon

Jan 10

Lecture 1: The What and Why of Parallel Programming

lec1-handout

lec1-slides

HW1 (Written Assignment)

 

2

Wed

Jan 12

Lecture 2: Task Creation & Termination using Async & Finish

lec2-handout

lec2-slides

 

 

3

Fri

Jan 14

Lecture 3: Computation Graphs, Abstract Performance Metrics

lec3-handout
(rev 1/14/2011)

lec3-slides

HW2 (Written Assignment)

HW1

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Mon

Jan 17

School Holiday

 

 

 

 

4

Wed

Jan 19

Lecture 4: Futures --- Tasks with Return Values

lec4-handout

lec4-slides

 

 

5

Fri

Jan 21

Lecture 5: Parallel Array Sum and Array Reductions

lec5-handout

lec5-slides

 

HW2

6

Mon

Jan 24

Lecture 6: Data Races and How to Avoid Them

lec6-handout

lec6-slides

HW3 (Programming Assignment)

 

7

Wed

Jan 26

Lecture 7: Parallel Prefix Sum, Forall parallel loops

lec7-handout

lec7-slides

 

 

8

Fri

Jan 28

Lecture 8: Parallel Quicksort

lec8-handout
(rev 1/28/2011)

lec8-slides

 

 

9

Mon

Jan 31

Lecture 9: PRAM model, Amdahl's Law

lec9-handout

lec9-slides

 

 

10

Wed

Feb 02

Lecture 10: Critical sections and the Isolated statement

lec10-handout
(rev 2/3/2011)

lec10-slides

 

 

-

Fri

Feb 04

No Lecture, School closed due to inclement weather

 

 

 

 

11

Mon

Feb 07

Lecture 11: Abstract vs Real Performance, Work-sharing & Work-stealing schedulers

lec11-handout

lec11-slides

 

HW3

12

Wed

Feb 09

Lecture 12: Barrier Synchronization in Forall Loops

lec12and13-handout

lec12-slides

HW4 (Written Assignment)

 

13

Fri

Feb 11

Lecture 13: Barrier Synchronization in Forall Loops (contd)

lec12and13-handout

lec13-slides

 

 

14

Mon

Feb 14

Lecture 14: Point-to-point Synchronization and Phasers

lec14and15-handout

lec14-slides

 

 

15

Wed

Feb 16

Lecture 15: Point-to-point Synchronization and Phasers (contd)

lec14and15-handout

lec15-slides

 

HW4

16

Fri

Feb 18

Lecture 16: Guest Lecture on Bitonic Sort (John Mellor-Crummey)

 

lec16-slides

 

 

17

Mon

Feb 21

Lecture 17: Advanced Phaser topics

lec17-handout

lec17-slides

 

 

18

Wed

Feb 23

Lecture 18: Midterm Summary

 

lec18-slides

Midterm Exam (Take-home)

 

-

Fri

Feb 25

No lecture, Midterm Exam due today

 

 

 

Midterm Exam (Take-home)

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M-F

Feb 28 - Mar 04

Spring Break

 

  HW5 (Written Assignment)


 

19

Mon

Mar 07

Lecture 19: Java Atomic Variables

lec19-handout

lec19-slides

 

 

20

Wed

Mar 09

Lecture 20: Java Concurrent Collections

lec20-handout

lec20-slides

 

 

21

Fri

Mar 11

Lecture 21: Task Affinity with Places

 

  

HW5 (Written Assignment)

 

22

Mon

Mar 14

Lecture 22: Task Affinity with Places, contd.

 

 

HW6 (Programming Assignment)

HW5



23

Wed

Mar 16

Lecture 23: Bounded Buffers

 

 

 

 

24

Fri

Mar 18

Lecture 24: Map Reduce, Phaser Accumulators

 

 

 

HW6 (Programming Assignment)

HW5  

25

Mon

Mar 21

Lecture 25: Data Flow Programming

 

 

 

 

26

Wed

Mar 23

Lecture 26: Data Flow Programming, contd

 

 

 

 

-

Fri

Mar 25

Midterm Recess

 

 

 

 

27

Mon

Mar 28

Lecture 27: Java Threads and synchronized statement

 

 

 

 

28

Wed

Mar 30

Lecture 28: GUI Applications

 

 

 

 

29

Fri

Apr 01

Lecture 29: Java Executors

 

 

HW7 (Programming Assignment)

HW6

30

Mon

Apr 04

Lecture 30: Java Locks & Conditions

 

 

 

 

31

Wed

Apr 06

Lecture 31: Java Synchronizers

 

 

 

 

32

Fri

Apr 08

Lecture 32: Deadlock, Livelock, Liveness

 

 

 

 

33

Mon

Apr 11

Lecture 33: Java Memory Model and Volatile Variables

 

 

 

 

34

Wed

Apr 13

Lecture 34: GPGPU programming with CUDA

 

 

 

 

35

Fri

Apr 15

Lecture 35: CUDA contd.

 

 

 

 

36

Mon

Apr 18

Lecture 36: Distributed-memory programming with MPI

 

 

 

 

37

Wed

Apr 20

Lecture 37: MPI contd.

 

 

 

 

38

Fri

Apr 22

Lecture 38: Course Summary

 

 

Final Exam (Take-home)

HW7

-

Fri

Apr 29

 

 

 

 

Final Exam (Take-home)

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The work you submit for this class is expected to be the result of your own work and that of your homework partner. You are free to discuss course material and approaches to problems with your other classmates, the teaching assistants and the professor, but you should never misrepresent someone else’s work as your own. If you use any material from online sources, you must provide proper attribution (as shown here) in your homework/programming assignment turnins. A tutorial on how and when to cite sources is here. You should explain what value you have added to work taken from online sources. Finally, it is also your responsibility to protect your work from unauthorized access. I will expect you to follow the Honor Code in this course.

Graded homeworks will be returned to you via email, and exams as marked-up hardcopies. If you believe we have made an error in grading your homework or exam, please bring the matter to our attention within one week.

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