COMP 322: Fundamentals of Parallel Programming (Spring 2023)
Instructor: | Mackale Joyner, DH 2063 | TAs: | Mohamed Abead, Chase Hartsell, Taha Hasan, Harrison Huang, Jerry Jiang, Jasmine Lee, Michelle Lee, Hung Nguyen, Quang Nguyen, Ryan Ramos, Oscar Reynozo, Delaney Schultz, Tina Wen, Raiyan Zannat, Kailin Zhang |
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Piazza site: | https://piazza.com/rice/spring2023/comp322 (Piazza is the preferred medium for all course communications) | Cross-listing: | ELEC 323 |
Lecture location: | TBD | Lecture times: | MWF 1:00pm - 1:50pm |
Lab locations: | TBD | Lab times: | Mon 3:00pm - 3:50pm () Tue 4:00pm - 4:50pm () |
Course Syllabus
A summary PDF file containing the course syllabus for the course can be found here. Much of the syllabus information is also included below in this course web site, along with some additional details that are not included in the syllabus.
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- Fork-Join Parallelism with a Data-Structures Focus (FJP) by Dan Grossman (Chapter 7 in Topics in Parallel and Distributed Computing)
- Java Concurrency in Practice by Brian Goetz with Tim Peierls, Joshua Bloch, Joseph Bowbeer, David Holmes and Doug Lea
- Principles of Parallel Programming by Calvin Lin and Lawrence Snyder
- The Art of Multiprocessor Programming by Maurice Herlihy and Nir Shavit
Lecture Schedule
Week | Day | Date (2023) | Lecture | Assigned Reading | Assigned Videos (see Canvas site for video links) | In-class Worksheets | Slides | Work Assigned | Work Due | Worksheet Solutions | |
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1 | Mon | Jan 09 | Lecture 1: Introduction | worksheet1 | lec1-slides | WS1-solution | |||||
Wed | Jan 11 | Lecture 2: Functional Programming | GList.java | worksheet2 | lec02-slides | WS2-solution | |||||
| Fri | Jan 13 | Lecture 3: Higher order functions | worksheet3 | lec3-slides | WS3-solution | ||||||
2 | Mon | Jan 16 | No class: MLK | ||||||||
Wed | Jan 18 | Lecture 4: Lazy Computation | LazyList.java Lazy.java | worksheet4 | lec4-slides | WS4-solution | |||||
Fri | Jan 20 | Lecture 5: Java Streams | worksheet5 | lec5-slides | Homework 1 | WS5-solution | |||||
| 3 | Mon | Jan 23 | Lecture 6: Map Reduce with Java Streams | Module 1: Section 2.4 | Topic 2.4 Lecture, Topic 2.4 Demonstration | worksheet6 | lec6-slides | WS6-solution | |||
Wed | Jan 25 | Lecture 7: Futures | Module 1: Section 2.1 | Topic 2.1 Lecture , Topic 2.1 Demonstration | worksheet7 | lec7-slides | WS7-solution | ||||
Fri | Jan 27 | Lecture 8: 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 | worksheet8 | lec8-slides | WS8-solution | ||||
4 | Mon | Jan 30 | Lecture 9: Async, Finish, Data-Driven Tasks | Module 1: Section 1.1, 4.5 | Topic 1.1 Lecture, Topic 1.1 Demonstration, Topic 4.5 Lecture, Topic 4.5 Demonstration | worksheet9 | lec9-slides | WS9-solution | |||
| Wed | Feb 01 | Lecture 10: Event-based programming model | worksheet10 | lec10-slides | Homework 1 | WS10-solution | |||||
| Fri | Feb 03 | Lecture 11: GUI programming as an example of event-based, futures/callbacks in GUI programming | worksheet11 | lec11-slides | Homework 2 | WS11-solution | |||||
| 5 | Mon | Feb 06 | Lecture 12: Scheduling/executing computation graphs Abstract performance metrics | Module 1: Section 1.4 | Topic 1.4 Lecture , Topic 1.4 Demonstration | worksheet12 | lec12-slides | WS12-solution | |||
Wed | Feb 08 | Lecture 13: Parallel Speedup, Critical Path, Amdahl's Law | Module 1: Section 1.5 | Topic 1.5 Lecture , Topic 1.5 Demonstration | worksheet13 | lec13-slides | WS13-solution | ||||
Fri | Feb 10 | No class: Spring Recess | |||||||||
| 6 | Mon | Feb 13 | Lecture 14: Accumulation and reduction. Finish accumulators | Module 1: Section 2.3 | Topic 2.3 Lecture Topic 2.3 Demonstration | worksheet14 | lec14-slides | WS14-solution | |||
Wed | Feb 15 | Lecture 15: Recursive Task Parallelism | worksheet15 | lec15-slides | WS15-solution | ||||||
| Fri | Feb 17 | Lecture 16: 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 | worksheet16 | lec16-slides | Homework 3 | Homework 2 | WS16-solution | ||
7 | Mon | Feb 20 | Lecture 17: Midterm Review | lec17-slides | |||||||
Wed | Feb 22 | Lecture 18: Limitations of Functional parallelism. | worksheet18 | lec18-slides | WS18-solution | ||||||
Fri | Feb 24 | Lecture 19: Fork/Join programming model. OS Threads. Scheduler Pattern | Topic 2.7 Lecture, Topic 2.7 Demonstration, Topic 2.8 Lecture, Topic 2.8 Demonstration, | worksheet19 | lec19-slides | WS19-solution | |||||
8 | Mon | Feb 27 | Lecture 20: Confinement & Monitor Pattern. Critical sections | Module 2: Sections 5.1, 5.2, 5.6 | Topic 5.1 Lecture, Topic 5.1 Demonstration, Topic 5.2 Lecture, Topic 5.2 Demonstration, Topic 5.6 Lecture, Topic 5.6 Demonstration | worksheet20 | lec20-slides | WS20-solution | |||
Wed | Mar 01 | Lecture 21: Atomic variables, Synchronized statements | Module 2: Sections 5.4, 7.2 | Topic 5.4 Lecture, Topic 5.4 Demonstration, Topic 7.2 Lecture | worksheet21 | lec21-slides | WS21-solution | ||||
Fri | Mar 03 | Lecture 22: Parallel Spanning Tree, other graph algorithms | worksheet22 | lec22-slides | Homework 4 | Homework 3 | WS22-solution | ||||
9 | Mon | Mar 06 | Lecture 23: Java Threads and Locks | Module 2: Sections 7.1, 7.3 | Topic 7.1 Lecture, Topic 7.3 Lecture | worksheet23 | lec23-slides | WS23-solution | |||
Wed | Mar 08 | Lecture 24: Java Locks - Soundness and progress guarantees | Module 2: 7.5 | Topic 7.5 Lecture | worksheet24 | lec24-slides | WS24-solution | ||||
Fri | Mar 10 | Lecture 25: Dining Philosophers Problem | Module 2: 7.6 | Topic 7.6 Lecture | worksheet25 | lec25-slides | WS25-solution | ||||
Mon | Mar 13 | No class: Spring Break | |||||||||
| Wed | Mar 15 | No class: Spring Break | |||||||||
Fri | Mar 17 | No class: Spring Break | |||||||||
10 | Mon | Mar 20 | Lecture 26: N-Body problem, applications and implementations | worksheet26 | lec26-slides | WS26-solution | |||||
Wed | Mar 22 | Lecture 27: Read-Write Locks, Linearizability of Concurrent Objects | Module 2: 7.3, 7.4 | Topic 7.3 Lecture, Topic 7.4 Lecture | worksheet27 | lec27-slides | WS27-solution | ||||
Fri | Mar 24 | Lecture 28: Message-Passing programming model with Actors | Module 2: 6.1, 6.2 | Topic 6.1 Lecture, Topic 6.1 Demonstration, Topic 6.2 Lecture, Topic 6.2 Demonstration | worksheet28 | lec28-slides | WS28-solution | ||||
11 | Mon | Mar 27 | Lecture 29: Active Object Pattern. Combining Actors with task parallelism | Module 2: 6.3, 6.4 | Topic 6.3 Lecture, Topic 6.3 Demonstration, Topic 6.4 Lecture, Topic 6.4 Demonstration | worksheet29 | lec29-slides | WS29-solution | |||
Wed | Mar 29 | Lecture 30: Task Affinity and locality. Memory hierarchy | worksheet30 | lec30-slides | WS30-solution | ||||||
Fri | Mar 31 | Lecture 31: Data-Parallel Programming model. Loop-Level Parallelism, Loop Chunking | Module 1: Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 | Topic 3.1 Lecture, Topic 3.1 Demonstration , Topic 3.2 Lecture, Topic 3.2 Demonstration, Topic 3.3 Lecture, Topic 3.3 Demonstration | worksheet31 | lec31-slides | Homework 5 | Homework 4 | WS31-solution | ||
12 | Mon | Apr 03 | Lecture 32: Barrier Synchronization with Phasers | Module 1: Section 3.4 | Topic 3.4 Lecture, Topic 3.4 Demonstration | worksheet32 | lec32-slides | WS32-solution | |||
Wed | Apr 05 | Lecture 33: Stencil computation. Point-to-point Synchronization with Phasers | Module 1: Section 4.2, 4.3 | Topic 4.2 Lecture, Topic 4.2 Demonstration, Topic 4.3 Lecture, Topic 4.3 Demonstration | worksheet33 | lec33-slides | WS33-solution | ||||
Fri | Apr 07 | Lecture 34: Fuzzy Barriers with Phasers | Module 1: Section 4.1 | Topic 4.1 Lecture, Topic 4.1 Demonstration | worksheet34 | lec34-slides | WS34-solution | ||||
13 | Mon | Apr 10 | Lecture 35: Eureka-style Speculative Task Parallelism | worksheet35 | lec35-slides | WS35-solution | |||||
| Wed | Apr 12 | Lecture 36: Scan Pattern. Parallel Prefix Sum | worksheet36 | lec36-slides | WS36-solution | ||||||
| Fri | Apr 14 | Lecture 37: Parallel Prefix Sum applications | worksheet37 | lec37-slides | |||||||
| 14 | Mon | Apr 17 | Lecture 38: Overview of other models and frameworks | lec38-slides | |||||||
| Wed | Apr 19 | Lecture 39: Course Review (Lectures 19-38) | lec39-slides | ||||||||
| Fri | Apr 21 | Lecture 40: Course Review (Lectures 19-38) | lec40-slides | Homework 5 |
Lab Schedule
Lab # | Date (2023) | Topic | Handouts | Examples |
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1 | Jan 09 | Infrastructure setup | lab0-handout lab1-handout | |
| - | Jan 16 | No lab this week (MLK) | ||
| 2 | Jan 23 | Functional Programming | lab2-handout | |
3 | Jan 30 | Java Streams | lab3-handout | |
| 4 | Feb 06 | Futures | lab4-handout | |
5 | Feb 13 | Data-Driven Tasks | lab5-handout | |
| - | Feb 20 | No lab this week (Midterm) | ||
| 6 | Feb 27 | Async / Finish | lab6-handout | |
| 7 | Mar 06 | Recursive Task Cutoff Strategy | lab7-handout | |
| - | Mar 13 | No lab this week (Spring Break) | ||
| 8 | Mar 20 | Java Threads | lab8-handout | |
| 9 | Mar 27 | Concurrent Lists | lab9-handout | |
| 10 | Apr 03 | Actors | lab10-handout | |
| 11 | Apr 10 | Loop Parallelism | lab11-handout | |
- | Apr 17 | No lab this week |
Grading, Honor Code Policy, Processes and Procedures
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