Schedule, Fall 2017
The schedule is maintained through the semester. Recordings of the lectures will be available on Canvas.
| Month | Day | Week | Lecture | Reading | Discussions | Labs | Assignment | ||
| Posted | Due | ||||||||
| Aug | 22 | Tue | 1 | Introduction (slides) | Quinn Ch 3 | D0 discuss on Piazza | No lab on MONDAY, L01 on Thursday labs run Thursday and following Monday | ||
| 24 | Thu | ||||||||
| 29 | Tue | 2 | OpenMP (slides
Quinn) and tasks (slides) | Quinn Ch17 | D0 due on Monday 8am. D1 discuss on Piazza | No lab on Thursday and next week Monday (Labor day). Finish L01 (especially scheduling) | PA1 (warmup) | ||
| 31 | Thu | PA1 | |||||||
| Sept | 5 | Tue | 3 | Sieve of Eratosthenes (slides)
and Caching, Blocking & Locality (slides) | Quinn Ch 5 3-C | D1 (L1 report) due, Thursday 8am. | L3 (OpenMP Tasks, PA1 help) | ||
| 7 | Thu | ||||||||
| 12 | Tue | 4 | Roofline(slides) and Performance Analysis (slides) | Roofline | D3 (OMP tasks) | PA2 help | PA2 (Sieve) | ||
| 14 | Thu | PA2 | |||||||
| 19 | Tue | 5 | Knapsack DP (slides) | Knapsack | D3 due, Monday 18, 8 am | L4 Performance Evaluation. | |||
| 21 | Thu | ||||||||
| 26 | Tue | 6 | Dependence Analysis (slides) | D4 (Performance Evaluation) | L4 continued | ||||
| 28 | Thu | ||||||||
| Oct | 3 | Tue | 7 | Midterm Review | PA3(knapsack) | ||||
| 5 | Thu | Midterm (in class for campus
students, on line for Distance students, no lab this Thursday and next week
Monday). The test is closed book, but you can bring one page of notes. The on line quiz for Distance Students is available Thursday from 2pm until Sunday 23:59 pm. Material: Weeks 1 to 6. | |||||||
| 10 | Tue | 8 | Thursday class cancelled, but there is Lab | D4 (Performance Evaluation) due 8:00 am Monday, Oct 9 | L5 Wavefront parallelization | PA3 | |||
| 12 | Thu | ||||||||
| 17 | Tue | 9 | Performance and Efficiency(Quinn slides)
MPI Introduction (Quinn slides) | Quinn Ch 7 | PA3 help | ||||
| 19 | Thu | ||||||||
| 24 | Tue | 10 | MPI details (Gropp and Lusk
slides) Matrix Multiply (Algorithms, MPI code Differentiation, integration slides) | Pacheco MPI Guide | D5 (wavefront) due | L6 MPI Communication Patterns | |||
| 26 | Thu | ||||||||
| 31 | Tue | 11 | Finite Difference Methods and MPI (Quinn slides)< Introduction to (GP)GPUs and CUDA slides) | L7 IsoEfficiency | PA4 (MPI Jacobi) | PA4 | |||
| Nov | 2 | Thu | |||||||
| 7 | Tue | 12 | PA4 due date extended to Sunday Nov 12, 11:59
pm, late submission 10% off CUDA register shared matmult Sorting (Quinn slides) | PA4 help | PA5 (Cuda) | ||||
| 9 | Thu | ||||||||
| 14 | Tue | 13 | Sorting (slides) Thursday: class cancelled | D7 (Iso-efficiency) due | Cuda coalescing ** starts Monday 11/13 ** | ||||
| 16 | Thu | ||||||||
| 21 | Tue | 14 | Thanksgiving break | ||||||
| 23 | Thu | ||||||||
| 28 | Tue | 15 | Guest Lectures: Swetha Varadarajan: Polyhedral Optimizations
of RNA-RNA Interaction Computations, Sanjay Rajopadhye: Future plans, CS575 Regular Lecture: Linear Equations(slides) | MPI Quiz due | PA5 help | PA5 | |||
| 30 | Thu | ||||||||
| Dec | 5 | Tue | 16 | Project report due Shortest Paths(slides), Review | D8 (Cuda Coalescing) due | Lab cancelled | Proj. Report | ||
| 8 | Thu | Bonus PA6 | |||||||
| 13 | Wed | 17 | Final Exam Dec 13 6:20-8:20
pm in class Dec 14 - Dec 17 On line: 2 hr quiz Material: comprehensive with emphasis on weeks 8 - 16. The test is closed book, but you can bring one page of notes. | ||||||
