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September 6 | Lecture 1: Introduction; Programming Project 1: Introduction to Jacobi Iteration [PDF] out | Topic Notes: Introduction and Overview |
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September 9 | Lecture 2: Java Threads; Lab 1: Java Threads Practice [HTML] [PDF] | Pacheco Ch. 1; Topic Notes: Java Threads |
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September 13 | Lecture 3: Decomposition Methods, Basics of Critical Sections | Pacheco Ch. 2 (see lecture page for focus sections) |
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September 16 | Lecture 4: C Programming for Scientific Computation; Lab 2: Chapter 2 Questions [HTML] [PDF]; Programming Project 2: Jacobi Iteration in C [HTML] [PDF] out | |
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September 20 | Lecture 5: Speedup and Scalability | |
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September 23 | Lecture 6: MPI Introduction; Lab 3: Processes and MPI Introduction [HTML] [PDF]; Lab 4: Point to Point Communication [HTML] [PDF]; Programming Project 3: MPI Recursive Digit Sum [HTML] [PDF] out | Pacheco Ch. 3.1-3.3 |
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September 27 | Lecture 7: MPI Point to Point Communication | |
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September 30 | Lecture 8: Non-Blocking Messages, Collective Communication; Lab 5: Non-Blocking Messages [HTML] [PDF]; Lab 6: Collective Communication [HTML] [PDF]; Programming Project 4: Collective Communication [HTML] [PDF] | Pacheco Ch. 3.4 |
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October 4 | Lecture 9: Collective Communication | |
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October 7 | Lecture 10: More MPI Examples; Programming Project 5: Parallelizing Jacobi Iteration [HTML] [PDF] | Topic Notes: Matrix-Matrix Multiplication with MPI |
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October 11 | Lecture 11: MPI Bag of Tasks; Lab 7: Stampede3 Setup | |
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October 14 | Lecture 12: MPI on Stampede3; Review; Lab 8: MPI on Stampede3 | |
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October 18 | No Class: October Break | |
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October 21 | No Class: October Break | |
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October 25 | Midterm Exam | |
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October 28 | Lecture 13: Introduction to Pthreads; Final Project Out; Lab 9: Introduction to Pthreads | Pacheco Ch. 4.1-4.2 |
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November 1 | Lecture 14: Critical Sections and Synchronization with Pthreads; Programming Project 6: Pthreads Programming [HTML] [PDF] Out | Topic Notes: Critical Sections with POSIX Threads |
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November 4 | Lecture 15: Pthreads Examples | |
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November 8 | Class Cancelled | |
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November 11 | Lecture 16: Introduction to OpenMP | Topic Notes: OpenMP |
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November 15 | Lecture 17: OpenMP Examples | |
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November 18 | Lecture 18: OpenMP Practice; Lab 10: OpenMP Practice [HTML] [PDF] | |
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November 22 | Lecture 19: OpenMP Wrapup; Introduction to Scientific Computation | Topic Notes: Scientific Computation |
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November 25 | Lecture 20: Computing on a Quadtree | |
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November 29 | No Class: Happy Thanksgiving! | |
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December 2 | Lecture 21: Parallel Adaptive Computation; Partitioning and Dynamic Load Balancing | Topic Notes: Partitioning and Dynamic Load Balancing; Example Quadtree
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December 6 | Lecture 22: Partitioning and Dynamic Load Balancing |
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December 9 | Lecture 23: Final Project Presentations | |
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December 11 | Final Exam, 4-6 PM. RB 302 (as scheduled by the Registrar) | |
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