Lecture Slides
| Date | Topic | Reading | Slides | Extras |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| • September 5 | Course Overview | slides | course_intro.erl | |
| • September 7 | Introduction to Erlang | Learn You Some Erlang: | slides | erl_intro.erl |
| Introduction through Functionally Solving Problems | ||||
| • September 10 | Processes and Messages | Learn You Some Erlang: | slides | procs.erl |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to Concurrency, and More on Multiprocessing | ||||
| • September 12 | Reduce: the algorithm | Learn You Some Erlang: | slides | reduce_intro.erl |
| Errors and Exceptions through A Short visit of Common Data Structures | ||||
| • September 14 | Reduce: the pattern | Lin & Snyder, Chap. 5, pp. 112-125 | slides | |
| • September 17 | Scan | |||
| • September 19 | Reduce and Scan Examples | slides | ||
| • September 21 | Reduce and Scan Continued | same slides as Sept. 19 | slides | scan.erl |
| • September 24 | Shared Memory Architectures | Pacheco, Chapter 2.1 -- 2.3 | slides | |
| • September 26 | Message Passing Architectures | slides | ||
| • September 28 | Super Scalar CPUs and Dependencies | slides | ||
| • October 1 | Super Scalar wrap up | |||
| • October 3 | Parallel Performance | MRR chapter 2.5 | slides | |
| • October 5 | Performance Loss | MRR chapter 2.6 | slides | |
| • October 8 | Thanksgiving | |||
| • October 10 | Models of Parallel Computation | slides | ||
| • October 10 | Energy and Parallel Computating | slides | ||
| • October 15 | Sorting Networks | Wikipedia entry on Sorting Networks | slides | |
| • October 17 | Bitonic Sort | slides | ||
| • October 19 | Midterm Review | |||
| • October 22 | Midterm | |||
| • October 24 | Finishing Bitonic Sort | slides | ||
| • October 26 | Data Parallel Computing with CUDA | Kirk & Hwu: Chap. 2 | slides | |
| • October 29 | GPU architecture overview | slides | ||
| • Oct. 31 & Nov. 2 | More on GPUs and multithreading | Kirk & Hwu: Chap. 3 | slides | |
| • Nov. 5 & 7 | Systolic Algorithms | Akl: Chap. 7 | slides | |
| • November 9 | CUDA: Threads, Blocks and Grids | slides | examples.cu | |
| • November 14 | CUDA: Memory (part 1) | Kirk & Hwu: Chap. 4 | slides | |
| • November 16 | CUDA: Memory (part 2) | |||
| • November 19 | CUDA: Memory (part 3) | slides | ||
| • November 21 | CUDA: Performance (part 1) | Kirk & Hwu: Chap. 5 | slides | |
| • November 23 | CUDA: Performance (part 2) | slides | ||
| • November 26 | CUDA: Performance (part 3) | slides | ||
| • November 28 | CUDA: wrap-up | slides | ||
| • November 30 | Course Summary & ReviewTM | slides |
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