Class activities will be recorded here.

This page has the entire plan for the semester. For weeks in the future, consider it a plan subject to change. For weeks in the past consider it a record of what we have done. As for the current week, keep a watch for updates and changes.

• Day	Topics	Assignment		Readings
  		Posted	Due

Week 1 : January 20 - January 26

• Tuesday	GPUs & CUDA (guest lecture by Wim Bohm) (pdf)	HW1
  Thursday	GPUs & CUDA (guest lecture by Wim Bohm, contd.) (pdf)

Week 2 : January 27 - February 2

• Tuesday	Introduction: Fine Grain Parallelism & Course Outline (pdf)	HW2		Foundations1
  Thursday	Equational Programming (Pascal's Triangle and Fibonacci)		HW1

Week 3 : February 3 - February 9

• Tuesday	Alpha, Alphabets & AlphaZ: Compiling & Executing Equations
  Thursday	Alpha Foundations	HW3	HW2	Foundations2

Week 4 : February 10 - February 16

• Tuesday	Class cancelled (illness)	HW4
  Thursday	Polyhedra, Affine Functions, Operations & Closure		HW3

Week 5 : February 17 - February 23

• Tuesday	Polyhedra, Affine Functions, Operations & Closure (contd.)		HW4
  Thursday	Alpha semantics: Domains & equivalence (pdf)

Week 6 : February 24 - March 2

• Tuesday	Alpha semantics: context domains (pdf)
  Thursday	Change of Basis: the fundamental transformation

Week 7 : March 3 - March 9

• Tuesday	CoB (contd) (pdf)
  Thursday	Systolic Arrays & Synthesis (pdf)

Week 8 : March 10 - March 16

• Tuesday	Mid term review		HW5
  Thursday	Simplifying Reductions	MT1		Advanced CUDA and more

Week 9 : March 17 - March 23

• Tuesday	Spring Break
  Thursday	Spring Break

Week 10 : March 24 - March 30

• Tuesday	Midterm solution/discussion
  Thursday	Scheduling a Single URE			KMW 67 + Lamport 74

Week 11 : March 31 - April 6

• Tuesday	Target Mapping & Code generation in AlphaZ
  Thursday	Scheduling 2: SUREs	HW7	HW6

Week 12 : April 7 - April 13

• Tuesday	Scheduling 2 (contd) (pdf)
  Thursday	Multidimensional Schedules	HW8	HW7

Week 13 : April 14 - April 20

• Tuesday	Target Mapping & Scchedule Validation in AlphaZ
  Thursday	Scheduling AREs & SAREs (RPF 86, Feautrier 92)			RPF86

Week 14 : April 21 - April 27

• Tuesday	Target Mapping & Code generation for general Alpha programs	HW9	HW8
  Thursday	Exact dataflow analysis		Project Progress

Week 15 : April 28 - May 4

• Tuesday	Exact dataflow analysis
  Thursday	Code generation from polyhedra (FME)		HW9

Week 16 : May 5 - May 11

• Tuesday	Simplifying Reductions
  Thursday	Complexity reduction using AlphaZ		Final Report (May 15)