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.

Week 1 : July 6 - July 12

• Mon	Pick your poison & your medicine "Decide the main application/benchmark/kernel that you will parallelize in your project, and your target language/platform (one of BlueSpec, OpenMP or CUDA)" "For BlueSpec, see documentation at /s/parsons/l/sys/Bluespec, especially under doc and training/BSV/slides/"		HW0 posted	Foundations1
  Tue	"Read: Roofline: An Insightful Visual Performance Model for Floating-Point Programs and Multicore Architectures by Williams, Waterman, and Patterson" Setting up your AlphaZ
  Thu	Introduction: Fine Grain Parallelism (Vamshi+Nirmal)	Video1 Video2
  Fri	Equations as programs: Alpha/Alphabets & AlphaZ; compiling and executing equations (Satya+Rahul) "Second video that week had a problem, here's a chat that covers the material"	Video1	HW0.due Prpsl.due

Week 2 : July 13 - July 19

• Mon	Complexity Reduction through equational reasoning: distributivity and factorization (Lucas+Loius) Complexity Reduction in AlphaZ	Video1 Video2
  Tue	More Complexity reduction & Alphabet/AlphaZ foundations	Video1 Video2		Foundations2
  Thu	"Alpha/Alphabets Foundations: Polyhedra, Affine Functions, Operations"
  Fri	"Semantics, Domains, Equivalence, Context Domains" slides2 context domains	Video1

Week 3 : July 20 - July 26

• Mon	Change of Basis: the key transformation	Video1 Video2
  Tue	Recap & Review	Video1
  Thu	Exact Data flow Analysis	Video1
  Fri	More EDFA	Video1

Week 4 : July 27 - August 2

• Mon	Scheduling -- Lamport 74	Video1 Video2
  Tue	Karp Miller & Winograd 1967 & Rajopadhye Purushothaman Fujimoto 1986 Video5 Video6	Video1 Video2 Video3 Video4
  Thu	Scheduling Feautrier (concl)	Video1 Video2 Video3 Video4
  Fri	Code Generation & Tiling& Posters	Video1