Consolidated Schedule, Fall 2015

The schedule below is tentative and will be tweaked as we go along in the semester. There are three main components (columns): Lectures (and the notes), weekly assignments, and readings. The video of the lectures will be available here


Month Day Week Lecture Video Reading Assignment
Posted Due
Aug 25 Tue 1 Class outline, expectations and logistics (slides) video   HW0 HW0
27 Thu Review: Parallel Programming & Accelerators (Colfax N-body Slides) video   HW1
Sept 1 Tue 2 Notations -- affine functions, polyhedra, parameters, etc. video Foundations 1
Foundations 2 		HW2
3 Thu video   HW2
8 Tue 3 video  
10 Thu Equational Programming (Alpha, Alphabets & AlphaZ) video  
15 Tue 4 video   HW3 HW3
17 Thu First steps of SARE parallelization: systolic arrays:
schedules, allocation functions, CoB 		video    
22 Tue 5 video    
24 Thu Code generation of transformed equations (FME, slides ) video   HW4
29 Tue 6 video     HW4
Oct 1 Thu Review for Midterm 1 video    
6 Tue 7 Midterm 1 (in class)
8 Thu Executing Alpha Programs (slides ) video     HW1
13 Tue 8 Alpha under the Hood (slides1 slides2 and slides3) video   HW5 HW5
15 Thu video    
20 Tue 9   video    
22 Thu   video   HW6 HW6
27 Tue 10 Formalizing the legality of mappings video    
29 Thu   video    
Nov 3 Tue 11 Automatic Scheduling: free scedules, Scheduling a single URE
Scheduling an ARE, SURE and SAREs 		video RFP86
Fea92a alt 		PR1
5 Thu video
10 Tue 12 Tiling: the missing link video    
12 Thu video   HW7
17 Tue 13   video     HW7
19 Thu Review for Midterm 2 video   HW8
24 Tue 14 Thanksgiving break (no classes)
26 Thu
Dec 1 Tue 15 Midterm 2 (take home) HW8
3 Thu Reductions: the final step video    
8 Tue 16 video
10 Thu video poster
17 Thu Final Project due (12:00 noon deadline) Report