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15-418/15-618: Parallel Computer Architecture and Programming, Spring 2025: Schedule
Notes
- The exact topics of the lectures are subject to change.
- We do not anticipate changing any of the other dates (exams, assignments, etc.)
- To watch the lecture videos, sign in to YouTube using your andrew.cmu.edu account.
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| Date |
Topic |
Assignment |
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Jan |
13 |
Why parallelism?
(slides
, video
) |
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Jan |
15 |
Modern multicore processors
(slides
, video
) |
|
Jan |
17 |
Parallel programming models
(slides
, video
) |
Assignment 1 out |
|
|
Jan |
22 |
Graphic processing units and CUDA (slides,
video (part 1),
video (part 2))
|
|
Jan |
24 |
Parallel programming basics (slides
, video
) |
|
|
|
Jan |
27 |
Work distribution and scheduling (slides
, video
) |
|
|
Jan |
29 |
Locality, communication, and contention
(slides
, video
) |
Assignment 1 due, assignment 2 out |
|
Jan |
31 |
Application case studies
(slides
, video
) |
|
|
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Feb |
3 |
Workload-driven performance evaluation
(slides
,video (part 1), video (part 2), video (part 3)
) |
|
|
Feb |
5 |
Interconnection networks (slides,
video (part 1),
video (part 2)) |
|
|
Feb |
7 |
Performance Measurement and Tuning (slides, video (part 1),
video (part 2))
|
|
|
|
Feb |
10 |
Snooping-based cache coherence (slides, video (part 1),
video (part 2),
video (part 3)) |
|
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Feb |
12 |
Directory-based cache coherence (slides, video (part 1),
video (part 2)
)
|
Assignment 2 due, Assignment 3 out |
|
Feb |
14 |
Snooping implementation (slides,
video (part 1),
video (part 2)) |
|
|
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Feb |
17 |
Prefetching + Exam Review
(slides
,
exam review slides,
video,
exam review video (NOTE: ignore the discussion of exam logistics - it is outdated)
)
|
|
|
Feb |
19 |
Exam 1 |
|
|
Feb |
21 |
Memory consistency
(slides
, video
) |
|
|
|
Feb |
24 |
Heterogenous parallelism (slides,
video (part 1),
video (part 2),
video (part 3)) |
|
|
Feb |
26 |
Domain-specific programming languages
(slides
, video
) |
Assignment 3 due, Assignment 4 out |
|
Feb |
28 |
Domain-specific programming on graphs
(slides
, video
) |
|
|
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Mar |
10 |
Under the Hood: Message Passing and Parallel Run-Time Implementations
(slides,
slides (p2)
, video, video pt 2
)
| |
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Mar |
12 |
Implementing synchronization (slides,
video (part 1),
video (part 2),
video (part 3)) |
|
|
Mar |
14 |
Fine-grained synchronization, lock-free programming
(slides,
video (part 1),
video (part 2),
video (part 3)) |
|
|
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Mar |
17 |
Transactional memory (slides,
video (part 1),
video (part 2),
video (part 3)) |
|
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Mar |
19 |
Parallel Deep Learning: Part 1
(slides
, video
) |
Assignment 4 due |
|
Mar |
21 |
Parallel Deep Learning: Part 2
(slides
,
video for data parallelism,
video for model parallelism,
video for pipeline parallelism (watch parts matching the slides)
) |
|
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Mar |
24 |
Project Idea Meetings |
|
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Mar |
26 |
Parallelism in Database Management Systems
(
slides,
video
) |
Project proposal due |
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Apr |
2 |
Exam 2 |
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