Tentative Schedule for CPT S 483: An Introduction to Parallel Computing (Fall 2016)
| Week | Day | Date | Topic |
Assignments* |
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| Posting date | Due date | ||||
| 1 | Tu | 8/23 | Course introduction | ||
| Th | Fundamentals of parallel computing | ||||
| 2 | Tu | 8/30 | No Class - Instructor Travel | ||
| Th | Models of parallel computing; Performance analysis | ||||
| 3 | Tu | 9/6 | Introduction to MPI: communication
primitives |
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| Th | Project
1 (n/w parameters) Homework |
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| 4 | Tu | 9/13 | MPI Collective primitives | ||
| Th | Homework | ||||
| 5 | Tu | 9/20 | Inter-connection networks & embeddings | ||
| Th | Project 2 (GoL) | ||||
| 6 | Tu | 9/27 | Matrix algorithms: MxV, MxM (Cannon's algo) | Homework | |
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| 7 | Tu | 10/4 | No Class - Instructor Travel | ||
| Th | Parallel prefix and applications | ||||
| 8 | Tu | 10/11 | Sorting (bitonic sort) | Project 2 | |
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| 9 | Tu | 10/18 | Transportation primitives | Project 3 | |
| Th | Sorting (sample sort) | ||||
| 10 | Tu | 10/25 | |||
| Th | No Class - Instructor Travel | ||||
| 11 | Tu | 11/1 | White Paper discussion in class | ||
| Th | Multithreading & OpenMP programming | Project
4 |
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| 12 | Tu | 11/8 | No class due to instrutor travel. Work on white paper formulation. | ||
| Th | Multithreaded algorithms: sorting, graph methods | ||||
| 13 | Tu | 11/15 | Project 5 |
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| Tu | 11/22 | Thanksgiving week (no class) | |||
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| 14 | Tu | 11/29 | Midterm exam | ||
| Th | Other topics - MapReduce, Cloud Computing, accelerators | ||||
| 15 | Tu | 12/6 | |||
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| Tu | 12/13 | Final White Paper due by Thursday (December 15, 2016) @ NOON PDT. | |||
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* Homework & project links will be activated on their posting dates.