15-418/15-618: Parallel Computer Architecture and Programming, Fall 2020: Schedule

Notes

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Date Topic Assignment  

Aug 31 Why parallelism? (slides; Lecture 1 videos: Part1, Part2)
Sep 2 Modern multicore processors (slides; lecture 2 video)
Sep 4 Parallel programming models (slides; lecture 3 video)

Sep 9 Parallel programming basics (slides , lecture 4 video) Assignment 1 due for waitlisted students
Sep 11 Work distribution and scheduling (slides , lecture 5 video)

Sep 14 Graphic processing units and CUDA (slides , video (part 1/2), video (part 3)) Assignment 1 due for registered students, assignment 2 out
Sep 16 Locality, communication, and contention (slides , lecture 7 video)
Sep 18 Application case studies (slides , lecture 8 video)

Sep 21 Workload-driven performance evaluation (pdf , video (part 1), video (part 2), video (part 3))
Sep 23 Snooping-based cache coherence (pdf , video (part 1), video (part 2), video (part 3))
Sep 25 Directory-based cache coherence (pdf , video (part 1), video (part 2))

Sep 28 Snooping implementation (pdf , video (live)) Assignment 2 due, assignment 3 out
Sep 30 Performance Measurement and Tuning (pdf, video (part 1), video (part 2)) Written assignment 1 out (via Canvas)
Oct 2 Memory consistency (slides , lecture 14 video)

Oct 5 Scaling a Website (slides , lecture 15 video (part 1), exam review video (part 2)) Written assignment 1 + peer review due
Oct 7 Interconnection networks (pdf, pptx , lecture 16 video (part 1), lecture 16 video (part 2))
Oct 9 Exam 1

Oct 12 Implementing synchronization (pdf, video (part 1), video (part 2), video (part 3))
Oct 14 Fine-grained synchronization, lock-free programming (pdf, video (part 1), video (part 2), video (part 3))

Oct 19 Transactional memory (pdf, video (part 1), video (part 2), video (part 3))
Oct 21 Heterogenous parallelism (pdf, video (part 1), video (part 2), video (part 3))

Oct 26 Guest lecture (Dave O'Hallaron, ground motion modeling and simulation) (video, Tech Report)
Oct 28 Tolerating latency through prefetching (slides , lecture 22 video) Assignment 4 due, Project assignment out (pdf)
Oct 30 Domain-specific programming languages (slides , lecture 23 video)

Nov 2 Project Idea Meetings
Nov 4 Domain-specific programming on graphs (slides , lecture 24 video)
Nov 6 Deep neural networks (slides , lecture 25 video)

Nov 9 MPI, OpenMP, Cilk implementation (Part A slides, Part B slides, Part A video (MPI), Part B video (OMP, Cilk))