| Date |
Topic |
Assignment |
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Notes
- Lectures are indicated with IDs of the form LXX, and recitations with IDs of the form RXX.
- The exact topics of the lectures are subject to change.
- We do not anticipate changing any of the other dates (exams, assignments, exercises, etc.)
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Jan |
13 |
L01. Why parallelism (pdf , pptx , video) |
Assignment 1 out (pdf) |
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Jan |
15 |
L02. Pipelining and instruction-level parallelism (pdf , pptx , video) |
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Jan |
17 |
L03. Modern multicore processors (pdf , video) |
Exercise 1 out (pdf) |
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Jan |
20 |
MLK Day. No class |
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Jan |
22 |
L04. Parallel programming models (pdf , video) |
Assignment 1 due for waitlisted students |
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Jan |
24 |
L05. Parallel programming basics (pdf , video) |
Exercise 1 due for registered students |
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Jan |
27 |
R01. Recitation: ILP, SIMD instructions (pdf , pptx , video) |
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Jan |
29 |
L06. Work distribution and scheduling (pdf , video) |
Assignment 1 due for registered students, assignment 2 out (pdf) |
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Jan |
31 |
L07. Graphic processing units and CUDA (pdf , video) |
Exercise 1 due for previously waitlisted students, Exercise 2 out (Ex1 solution pdf, Ex2 pdf) |
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Feb |
3 |
R02. Recitation: CUDA programming (pdf , video , tgz) |
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Feb |
5 |
L08. Locality, communication, and contention (pdf , video) |
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Feb |
7 |
L09. Application case studies (pdf , video) |
Exercise 2 due (solution pdf) |
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Feb |
10 |
L10. Workload-driven performance evaluation (pdf , video) |
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Feb |
12 |
L11. Snooping-based cache coherence (pdf , pptx , https) |
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Feb |
14 |
R03. Recitation: Understanding Assignment 3 (pdf , pptx , video) |
Assignment 3 out (pdf) |
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Feb |
15 |
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Assignment 2 due |
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Feb |
17 |
R04. Recitation: Open MP programming (pdf , pptx , video , code) |
Exercise 3 out (pdf) |
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Feb |
19 |
L12. Snooping implementation (pdf , video) |
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Feb |
21 |
L13. Directory-based cache coherence (pdf , video) |
Exercise 3 due (pdf) |
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Feb |
24 |
L14. Memory consistency (pdf , pptx , video) |
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Feb |
26 |
Exam 1 |
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Feb |
28 |
L15. Interconnection networks (pdf , pptx , video) |
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Mar |
2 |
L16. Implementing synchronization (pdf , video) |
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Mar |
4 |
L17. Performance Measurement and Tuning (pdf , pptx , video) |
Assignment 3 due, assignment 4 out (pdf) |
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Mar |
6 |
Spring break |
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Mar |
9 |
Spring break |
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Mar |
11 |
Spring break |
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Mar |
13 |
Spring break |
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Mar |
16 |
R05. Recitation: MPI programming (pdf , code , video) |
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Mar |
18 |
R05. Recitation: MPI programming (pdf , code , video) |
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Mar |
20 |
L18. Fine-grained synchronization, lock-free programming (pdf , pptx , video) |
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Mar |
23 |
L19. Transactional memory (pdf , pptx , video) |
Exercise 4 out (pdf) |
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Mar |
25 |
L20. MPI, OpenMP, Cilk implementation (pdf , pptx , video) |
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Mar |
27 |
L21. Heterogenous parallelism, Class project (pdf , pptx , video) |
Class project description out (pdf, video) |
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Mar |
29 |
|
Assignment 4 due |
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Mar |
30 |
L22. Domain-specific languages (pdf , pptx , video) |
Exercise 4 due, Exercise 5 out (solution pdf, exercise pdf) |
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Apr |
1 |
L23. Domain-specific frameworks (pptx , pdf , video) |
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Apr |
3 |
L24. Deep neural networks (zoom , pdf , video) |
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Apr |
5 |
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Project proposal checkpoint |
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Apr |
6 |
No lecture |
Exercise 5 due (pdf) |
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Apr |
8 |
No lecture |
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Apr |
10 |
No lecture |
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Apr |
12 |
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Project proposal due |
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Apr |
13 |
No lecture |
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Apr |
15 |
Exam 2 |
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Apr |
17 |
No lecture |
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Apr |
20 |
No lecture |
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Apr |
22 |
No lecture |
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Apr |
24 |
No lecture |
Project checkpoint |
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Apr |
27 |
No lecture |
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Apr |
29 |
No lecture |
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May |
1 |
No lecture |
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May |
4 |
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May |
6 |
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Project report due |