Date | Topic and/or Event | Readings |
September 5 | Lecture 01: Introduction; Overview; Setup; Lab 0: Setting Up | Topic Notes: Introduction; Pacheco Ch. 1 |
September 7 | Lecture 02: C; Lab 1: C | |
September 12 | Lecture 03: Programming Models and Hardware; Lab 2: Accounts | |
September 14 | Lecture 04: C Arrays; Lab 3: C Structs; Programming Project 1: Jacobi Iteration [HTML] [PDF] | Pacheco Ch. 2.1-2.3 |
September 19 | Lecture 05: Processes; MPI Introduction; Lab 4: Processes and MPI Introduction | |
September 21 | Lecture 06: Point to Point Communication; Lab 5: Point to Point Communication | Pacheco Ch 3.1-3.3 |
September 26 | Lecture 07: MPI on Stampede2; Lab 6: Running Jobs on Stampede2 | |
September 28 | Lecture 08: Non-Blocking Communication; Lab 7: Non-Blocking Messages | Pacheco Ch. 3.4 |
October 3 | Lecture 09: Collective Communication; Lab 8: Collective Communication | |
October 5 | Lecture 10: Project 2 Introduction; Programming Project 2: Parallelizing Jacobi Iteration | |
October 10 | Lecture 11: More Collective Communication; Lab 9: More Collective Communication | |
October 12 | Lecture 12: Printing Distributed Data; Lab Work | |
October 17 | Lecture 13: Introduction to Threading; Lab 10: Introduction to pthreads | Pacheco Ch. 4.1-4.2 |
October 19 | Lecture 14: Exam Review | |
October 23 | Midterm Exam, 7:15 PM, RB 340 | |
October 24 | Lecture 15: Critical Sections; Lab 11: Critical Sections; Programming Project 3: Multithreaded Palindromic Word Finder; Term Project Out | Pacheco Ch. 4.3-4.5 |
October 26 | No Class | |
October 31 | Boo. Lecture 16: Exam Recap; Project Clarifications; Lab Work | |
November 2 | Lecture 17: Performance; Lab 12: Performance | Pacheco Ch. 2.6 |
November 7 | No class: EDSIGCON presentation | |
November 9 | Lecture 18: Lab and Project Work | |
November 14 | Lecture 19: TSP Project Introduction; Scientific Computing Introduction; Programming Project 4: Traveling Salesperson Problem | Pacheco Ch. 6.2; Topic Notes: Scientific Computing |
November 16 | Lecture 20: Adaptive Quadtree Computation | |
November 21 | Lecture 21: More Adaptive Quadtree Computation | |
November 23 | No Class: Happy Thanksgiving! | |
November 28 | Lecture 22: Partitioning and Dynamic Load Balancing | |
November 30 | Lecture 23: Partitioning and Dynamic Load Balancing | |
December 5 | Lecture 24: Project Presentations | |
December 7 | Lecture 25: Project Presentations | |
December 15 | Final Exam, 4-6 PM | |
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