| 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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Jan |
17 |
Martin Luther King Day, No class |
Assignment 1 out |
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Jan |
19 |
Why parallelism |
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Jan |
21 |
Instruction-level parallelism |
Exercise A out |
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Jan |
24 |
Recitation ILP, SIMD, & Performance bounds |
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Jan |
25 |
No class |
Assignment 1 due for waitlist |
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Jan |
26 |
Modern multicore processors |
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Jan |
28 |
Parallel programming models |
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Jan |
31 |
Recitation: CUDA programming |
Assignment 1 due for registered students, Assignment 2 out |
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Feb |
2 |
Parallel programming basics |
Exercise A due, Exercise B out |
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Feb |
4 |
Work distribution and scheduling |
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Feb |
7 |
Graphic processing units and CUDA |
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Feb |
9 |
Locality, communication, and contention |
Exercise B due, Exercise C out |
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Feb |
11 |
Recitation: Open MP programming |
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Feb |
14 |
Application case studies |
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Feb |
15 |
No class |
Assignment 2 due, Assignment 3 out |
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Feb |
16 |
Workload-driven performance evaluation |
Exercise C due, Exercise D out |
|
Feb |
18 |
Snooping-based cache coherence |
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Feb |
21 |
Snooping implementation |
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Feb |
23 |
Recitation: Exam Review |
Exercise D due, Exercise E out |
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Feb |
24 |
No class |
Exam 1 released at noon |
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Feb |
25 |
No class - Exam 1 |
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Feb |
26 |
No class |
Exam 1 due at 11:59 pm |
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Feb |
28 |
Directory-based cache coherence |
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Mar |
2 |
Recitation: MPI programming |
Exercise E due, Exercise F out |
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Mar |
4 |
No lecture |
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Mar |
7 |
Spring break |
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Mar |
9 |
Spring break |
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Mar |
11 |
Spring break |
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Mar |
13 |
No class |
Assignment 3 due, Assignment 4 out |
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Mar |
14 |
Performance Measurement and Tuning |
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Mar |
16 |
Memory consistency |
Exercise F due, Exercise G out |
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Mar |
18 |
Interconnection networks |
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Mar |
21 |
Implementing synchronization |
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Mar |
23 |
Fine-grained synchronization, lock-free programming |
Assignment 4 due, Project proposal due, Exercise G due, Exercise H out |
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Mar |
25 |
MPI, OpenMP, Cilk implementation |
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Mar |
28 |
Heterogenous parallelism |
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Mar |
30 |
Domain-specific languages |
Exercise H due, Exercise I out |
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Apr |
1 |
Domain-specific frameworks |
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Apr |
4 |
Deep neural networks A |
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Apr |
6 |
Deep neural networks B |
Exercise I due |
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Apr |
8 |
To be determined |
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Apr |
11 |
Recitation: Exam Review |
Project checkpoint |
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Apr |
13 |
Exam 2 |
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Apr |
15 |
No lecture |
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Apr |
18 |
No lecture |
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Apr |
20 |
No lecture |
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Apr |
22 |
No lecture |
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Apr |
25 |
No lecture |
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Apr |
27 |
No lecture |
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Apr |
29 |
Last Day of Semester |
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May |
5 |
No class |
Project report and video due |