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Tentative outline of course topics. When lectures slides become available, they will be posted here in PDF format.

Recommended readings for each lecture are posted under Readings.

Date Lec.
Topic
 Due? Out
Aug 19
  1 Overview: High-level view of parallel systems, programming models, analytical models
   HW #0
 21
  2 Single-core architectures: Pipelining
Project proposal
 26
  3 Single-core architectures: Memory hierarchies; tuning (1)
 HW #0
 28
  4 Single-core tuning (2)
    HW #1
 Sep 2
  5 Single-core tuning (3)
    
4
6
Parallel architectures (1)
    
 9  7 Parallel architectures (2)
    
 11  8 Using GPUs and CUDA [Guest: Prof. Hyesoon Kim, GT-CoC/CS]
    
 16  9 Parallel architectures (3)

 18  — NO CLASS
 HW #1
  
23
10
Reasoning about parallelism (1): Analytical models
   HW #2
25
11
Reasoning about parallelism (2): Sources
    
 30  12 Reasoning about parallelism (3): More sources

Oct 2
  13 Programming models (1)    
7 14 Programming models (2): Main slides, supplemental TBB slides
 HW #2 & Project proposal
9
15 Programming models (3)
  
14 —
 NO  CLASS (Fall Break)
    
16 16 Intel Concurrent Collections [Guest: Aparna Chandramowlishwaran]    
21
 17 DARPA HPCS languages: X10 and Chapel

23
18
DARPA HPCS languages: Fortress; also, perspectives by R. Barrett (ORNL) and E. Lusk (ANL)
 
28
19 Compilers: Basics of loop dependence analysis
  
30
20 Compilers: Polytope models
    
Nov 4
21
Performance analysis tools: Main (incl. 0-1 knapsack), Vetter's slides
 
6 22 Guest: Dr. Burton Smith, Microsoft Research, on "Reinventing Computing."
SPECIAL TIME/PLACE: 3--4pm Klaus 1443.
   HW #3
11
 23 Parallel file systems and I/O
 
13 24
 Harnessing unused cycles: Volunteer computing
  Project Chkpt. (Fri by 6pm)
  
18
—
NO CLASS (Supercomputing)
   
20 —
NO CLASS (Supercomputing)
    
25
 25 Final project presentations (1)
    
Dec 2
 26
 Final project presentations (2)
    
4
 27
Final project presentations (3)
 HW #3
 
10
 — Final project reports due
 Final project report
 
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