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