Course Schedule

The class will follow this tentative schedule. Updates will be posted here and on the class Slack! Topic titles link to the slides for each class and lecture videos are available here.

Date	Topic	Pre-class	Homework	Notes
9/3	Introduction to the course	PCA 0
9/8	GitHub/Single-processor computing	PCA 1	HW 1
9/10	Single-processor computing	PCA 2
9/15	Single-processor review		HW 2	HW1 due
9/17	Parallel computing theory	PCA 3
9/22	Parallel programming	PCA 4	HW 3	HW2 due
9/24	Network Topologies	PCA 5
9/29	The Seven Dwarfs	PCA 6	HW 4	HW3 due
10/1	Intro to MPI, functional parallelism	PCA 7
10/6	Collective communication	PCA 8	HW 5	HW4 due
10/8	Collective communication	PCA 9
10/13	Point-to-point communication	PCA 10	HW 6	HW5 due
10/15	Point-to-point communication	PCA 11
10/20	Data types, communicators		HW 7	HW6 due
10/22	Getting started with OpenMP	PCA 12
10/27	OpenMP, regions, loops	PCA 13	HW8	HW7 due
10/29	Worksharing, thread data, reductions	PCA 14
11/3	CANCELLED
11/5	Synchronization, tasks	PCA 15		HW8 due
11/10	One-sided communication	PCA 16	HW 9
11/12	I/O, HDF5	PCA 17
11/17	Affinity, memory models, shared memory MPI	PCA 18	HW 10
11/19	SIMD, OpenMP review	PCA 19	HW11	HW9 due
11/24	OpenMP 4.5 GPU	PCA 20
11/26	No class!
12/1	Project work day			HW10 due
12/3	GPUs, CUDA	PCA 21
12/8	CANCELLED
12/10	Review			Projects due!
12/17	Final Project Review (10 am - 12 pm)			Peer reviews due!