15-418/15-618: Parallel Computer Architecture and Programming, Fall 2024: Schedule

Notes

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Date Topic Assignment  

Aug 26 Why parallelism? (slides; video )
Aug 28 Instruction-level Parallelism (slides, video )
Aug 30 Modern multicore processors (slides; video ) Assignment 1 out

Sep 4 Parallel programming models (slides; video )
Sep 6 CUDA Programming(slides , video (part 1), video (part 2))

Sep 9 Graphic processing units and CUDA (Continued) (slides , video (part 1), video (part 2))
Sep 11 Parallel programming basics (slides , video ) Assignment 1 due, assignment 2 out
Sep 13 Work distribution and scheduling (slides , video )

Sep 16 Locality, communication, and contention (slides , video )
Sep 18 Guest lecture (Sheng Xu, Daniel Kroening, Amazon)
Sep 20 Snooping-based cache coherence (slides, video (part 1), video (part 2), video (part 3))

Sep 23 Directory-based cache coherence (slides, video (part 1), video (part 2))
Sep 25 Snooping implementation (slides, video (part 1), video (part 2)) Assignment 2 due, Assignment 3 out
Sep 27 Virtual Memory (slides, video)

Sep 30 Interconnection networks (slides, video (part 1), video (part 2), exam review slides)
Oct 2 Exam 1
Oct 4 Memory consistency (slides , video)

Oct 7 Implementing synchronization (slides, video (part 1), video (part 2), video (part 3))
Oct 9 Fine-grained synchronization, lock-free programming (slides, video (part 1), video (part 2), video (part 3)) Assignment 3 extended, Assignment 4 out
Oct 11 Fine-grained synchronization, lock-free programming continued.

Oct 21 Heterogenous parallelism (slides, video (part 1), video (part 2), video (part 3))
Oct 23 Domain-specific programming languages (slides, video)
Oct 25 Domain-specific programming on graphs (slides , video)

Oct 28 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)