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| Day | Date (2012) | Topic | Slides | Audio (Panopto) | Code Examples | Assignment |
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| Module 1: Deterministic Shared-Memory Parallelism | |||||||
1 | Wed | Sep 05 | Lecture 1: Introduction, Async-Finish Parallel Programming, Computation Graphs, Abstract Performance Metrics, Parallel Array Sum | lec1-audio | HW0 (due by 11:59pm on Tuesday, Sep 11th) | ||
2 | Mon | Sep 10 | Lecture 2: Parallel Array Sum (contd), Amdahl's Law, Weak vs. Strong Scaling, Data Races and Determinism | lec2-audio |
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3 | Wed | Sep 12 | Lecture 3: Finish Accumulators, Futures (Tasks with Return Values), Dataflow Programming, Data-Driven Tasks |
| HW1 (due by 11:59pm on Tuesday, Sep 18th) | ||
4 | Mon | Sep 17 | Lecture 4: Parallel Programming Patterns, Seq clause, Forall Loops, Barrier Synchronization |
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5 | Wed | Sep 19 | Lecture 5: Systolic Algorithms, Parallel Odd-Even Sort |
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| HW2 (due by 11:59pm on Tuesday, Sep 25th) | |
6 | Mon | Sep 24 | Lecture 6: Collective and Point-to-point Synchronization with Phasers, Phased Forasync Loops, Phaser Accumulators, Loop Chunking | lec6-audio |
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| Module 2: Nondeterministic Shared-Memory Parallelism | |||||||
7 | Wed | Sep 26 | Lecture 7: Critical sections and the Isolated statement, Atomic Variables | HW3 (due by 11:59pm on Thursday, Oct 4th) | |||
8 | Mon | Oct 01 | Lecture 8: Observationally Cooperative Scheduling (Guest lecturer: Prof. Melissa O'Neil) | lec8-slides |
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9 | Wed | Oct 03 | Lecture 9: Monitors, Actors | lec9-slides | HW4 (due by 11:59pm on Friday, Oct 12th) | ||
10 | Mon | Oct 08 | Lecture 10: Linearizability of Concurrent Objects, Safety and Liveness Properties, Progress Guarantees | lec10-slides |
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| Module 3: Distributed-Memory Parallelism | |||||||
11 | Wed | Oct 10 | Lecture 11: Task Affinity with Places, Message Passing Interface (MPI) | lec11-slides |
| HW5 (due by 11:59pm on Wednesday, Oct 17th) | |
12 | Mon | Oct 15 | Lecture 12: Message Passing Interface (contd) | lec12-slides |
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13 | Wed | Oct 17 | Lecture 13: Course Review | lec13-slides |
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| Take-home Final Exam (3-hour duration, due by 5pm on Oct 19th) |