CS 181E Resource Site: Fundamentals of Parallel Programming (Fall 2012)
Introduction
This web site contains resources for the Fall 2012 offering of CS 181E at Harvey Mudd College. For general information on this course, please see the course Twiki page and the course syllabus.
Lecture Schedule
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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, Amdahl's Law, Weak vs. Strong Scaling |
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| HW0 (due by 11:59pm on Tuesday, Sep 11th) | |
2 | Mon | Sep 10 | Lecture 2: Data Races and Determinism, Finish Accumulators, Futures (Tasks with Return Values), Dataflow Programming, Data-Driven Tasks, Deadlock |
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3 | Wed | Sep 12 | Lecture 3: Abstract vs. Real Performance, Seq clause, Forall Loops, Loop Chunking, Barrier Synchronization |
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| HW1 (due by 11:59pm on Tuesday, Sep 18th) |
4 | Mon | Sep 17 | Lecture 4: Array Reductions, Parallel QuickSort, Collective and Point-to-point Synchronization with Phasers, Phased Forasync Loops, Phaser Accumulators |
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5 | Wed | Sep 19 | Lecture 5: Parallel MergeSort, Parallel BitonicSort |
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| HW2 (due by 11:59pm on Tuesday, Sep 25th) | |
| Module 2: Nondeterministic Shared-Memory Parallelism | |||||||
6 | Mon | Sep 24 | Lecture 6: Critical sections and the Isolated statement, Monitors, Atomic Variables |
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7 | Wed | Sep 26 | Lecture 7: Actors |
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| HW3 (due by 11:59pm on Tuesday, Oct 2nd) |
8 | Mon | Oct 01 | Lecture 8: Systolic arrays, Systolic algorithms |
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9 | Wed | Oct 03 | Lecture 9: Linearizability of Concurrent Objects, Safety and Liveness Properties |
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| HW4 (due by 11:59pm on Tuesday, Oct 9th) | |
| Module 3: Distributed-Memory Parallelism | |||||||
10 | Mon | Oct 08 | Lecture 10: Task Affinity with Places, Message Passing Interface (MPI) |
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11 | Wed | Oct 10 | Lecture 11: MPI (contd), Cloud Computing and MapReduce, GPU Programming |
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| HW5 (due by 11:59pm on Tuesday, Oct 16h) | |
| Module 4: Real-world Parallel Programming Models and Challenges | |||||||
12 | Mon | Oct 15 | Lecture 12: Parallel Programming Patterns, Comparison of Parallel Programming Models |
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13 | Wed | Oct 17 | Lecture 13: Memory Consistency Models, Course Review |
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| Take-home Final Exam (3-hour duration, due by 5pm on Oct 19th) |