| Date |
Topic |
Assignment |
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Notes
- The exact topics of the lectures are subject to change.
- We do not anticipate changing any of the other dates (exams, assignments, etc.)
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|
Aug |
30 |
Why parallelism?
(slides;
video
) |
|
|
Sep |
1 |
Modern multicore processors
(slides;
video
) |
Assignment 1 out |
|
|
Sep |
6 |
Parallel programming models
(slides;
video
) |
|
Sep |
8 |
Graphic processing units and CUDA (slides ,
video (part 1),
video (part 2))
|
|
|
Sep |
11 |
Graphic processing units and CUDA (Continued) (slides ,
video (part 1),
video (part 2))
|
|
Sep |
13 |
Parallel programming basics (slides
, video ) |
Assignment 1 due, assignment 2 out |
|
Sep |
15 |
Work distribution and scheduling (slides
, video
) |
|
|
|
Sep |
18 |
Locality, communication, and contention
(slides
, video
) |
|
|
Sep |
19 |
Instruction-level Parallelism
(slides, video
) |
|
|
Sep |
22 |
Snooping-based cache coherence (slides, video (part 1),
video (part 2),
video (part 3)) |
|
|
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Sep |
25 |
Snooping implementation (slides,
video (part 1),
video (part 2))
|
|
|
Sep |
27 |
Directory-based cache coherence (slides, video (part 1),
video (part 2))
|
Assignment 2 due, Assignment 3 out |
|
Sep |
29 |
Virtual Memory (slides, video)
|
|
|
Oct |
2 |
Interconnection networks (slides,
video (part 1),
video (part 2), exam review slides,
exam review video (NOTE: ignore the discussion of exam logistics - it is outdated)) |
|
|
Oct |
4 |
Exam 1 |
|
|
Oct |
6 |
Memory consistency
(slides
, video) |
|
|
|
Oct |
9 |
Implementing synchronization (slides,
video (part 1),
video (part 2),
video (part 3)) |
|
|
Oct |
11 |
Fine-grained synchronization, lock-free programming
(slides,
video (part 1),
video (part 2),
video (part 3)) |
Assignment 3 due, Assignment 4 out |
|
|
Oct |
23 |
Domain-specific programming languages
(slides, video) |
|
|
Oct |
25 |
Domain-specific programming on graphs
(slides ,
video) |
|
|
Oct |
27 |
Parallel Deep Learning: Basics
(slides, video) |
|
|
|
|
Oct |
30 |
Parallel Deep Learning: Data Parallelism
(slides, video) |
|
|
|
Nov |
1 |
Parallel Deep Learning: Model and Pipeline Parallelism
(slides ,
video for model parallelism, video for pipeline parallelism) |
|
|
|
Nov |
3 |
Heterogenous parallelism (slides,
video (part 1),
video (part 2),
video (part 3)) |
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