INF3201 - parallel programming

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Mandatory readings / Pensum

Details about the mandatory readings .

Assignments

First assignment: Dessert Map – not mandatory
Second assignment: Frost Trap – hand-in Friday October 6th, 12:00
Third assignment: Race Trap – not mandatory
Fourth assignment: Wind Trap – hand-in Friday November 17th, 12:00
Fifth assignment: Clone Machine – hand-in Wednesday November 29th, 12:00

Group sessions

Notes from 2006-08-29

Old Exams

Lectures

This is a week-by-week schedule which includes topics, related readings, homework, and projects.
You are responsible for doing the readings and thinking about the topics before attending each class.

PP: Wilkinson: Parallel Programming, second edition. The numbers after PP are chapter numbers (for Readings) or exercise numbers (for Projects).
LA = Lille Auditorium.
Fridays: the single lecture hour on fridays will normally not be used. I will announce Friday lectures on the mailing list and on this schedule at least one day before the lectures.

Week	Date	Room	Topic	Readings	Who	Slides
34	Wed, Aug 23	LA	Introduction, Parallel Computers	PP(1)	JMB	slides01.pdf
	Fri, Aug 25	LA	Parallel Computers	PP(1)	JMB
35	Wed, Aug 30	LA	Message Passing	PP(2)	JMB	slides02.pdf

36	Wed, Sep 6	LA	Emberassingly Parallel Computations	PP(3)	JMB	slides03.pdf

37	Wed, Sep 13	LA	Partitioning and Divide-and-Conquer	PP(4)	JMB	slides04.pdf
	Fri, Sep 15		NO LECTURE
38	Wed, Sep 20		NO LECTURE

39	Wed, Sep 27	LA	Synchronous Computations	PP(6)	JMB	slides06-v2.pdf

40	Wed, Oct 4		NO LECTURE

41	Wed, Oct 11	LA	Load Balancing and Termination Detection	PP(7)	JMB	slides07.pdf

42	Wed, Oct 18	LA	Pipelining	PP(5)	JMB	slides05.pdf

43	Wed, Oct 25	LA	Shared Memory	PP(8)	JMB	slides08---jmb1.pdf

44	Wed, Nov 1	LA	Guest Lecture, Brian Vinter: Taming the multi-core beast!		BV	MultiCore.pdf

45	Wed, Nov 8	LA	Shared Memory, Part 2	PP(8)	JMB	slides08---jmb1.pdf pthreads-example.tar.gz
	Fri, Nov 10	LA	Distributed Shared Memory	PP(9)	JMB	slides09-jmb2.pdf dsm-example.tar.gz
46	Wed, Nov 15		DSM, Part 2 (Consistency Models) Tuple Spaces	PP(9) and larticles		tuplespaces-2006-v03.pdf Other readings: "Generative Communication in Linda" (David Gelernter) article in ACM DL "Linda in Context" (Nicholas Carriero, David Gelernter) article in ACM DL JavaSpaces (Sun) TSpaces (IBM) Some Tuple Spaces Links
	Fri, Nov 17		CSP			csp2006.pdf CSP Paper: p666-hoare.pdf IBM article series: JCSP article series Also, see links in the foils.
47	Wed, Nov 22	---	NO LECTURE
	Fri, Nov 24		PATHS+CoMPI
48	Wed, Nov 29		ELCIRC
	Fri, Dec 1	LA	Exam Prep
49	Wed, Dec 6

50	Wed, Dec 13
	Fri, Dec 15	EXAM	EXAM, see course homepage