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Revision as of 15:03, 4 September 2013

--D. Thiebaut (talk) 11:15, 9 August 2013 (EDT)




Main Page|Syllabus|Links & Resources | PIAZZA



Weekly Schedule

Week Topics Reading
Week 1
9/3
  • Tuesday
    • Syllabus
    • Introduction to final project
      • Approach
      • Programming
      • Testing
      • ==> paper (see 2011 paper for example).
    • Parallelism: going to the source: Interrupts!
      • 8086 type of interrupts (simplified)
      • Interrupt Vector
      • Interrupt Priority
      • Context Switch
      • Stack and Stack Frame
      • Global and Local Variables
    • What is a process?
    • What is a thread?


  • Thursday
    • Introducction to a graph we'll use all throughout the semester. The idea of threads
    Thread 1 ----------------------|====|-------------------------> time

    Thread 2 ------------|====|-----------------------------------> time


    • Multithreaded programming.
      • Computing Pi
      • Mini Lab 1
      • Regroup and gather statistics on the different machines in the classroom
      • Introduction to measuring performance. Comparing execution times.
      • Introduction to Speedup( N ), where N is the number of threads, or the number of processors.
      • Amdahl's Law
AmdahlsLaw.jpg
      • Processor Utilization
ParallelProcessorUtilizationDefinition.gif


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Week 2
9/10
  • Tuesday
  • Thursday
    • Discussion of A View of Cloud Computing from Berkeley. Prepare a 1- to 2-page summary of the paper in Latex. Hand-in the summary in class. No summaries will be accepted after class.

 


Week 3
9/17
  • Tuesday: Guided tour by Maggie Lind at the SCMA. Meeting in entrance of museum.
  • Thursday

Week 4
9/24
  • Tuesday: Tentative Guest Lecture by Tim Draper
  • Thursday

 

Week 5
10/1
  • Tuesday
  • Thursday

Week 6
10/8
  • Tuesday
  • Thursday

 

Week 7
10/15
  • Tuesday: Fall Break
  • Thursday

Week 8
10/22
  • Tuesday
  • Thursday

 

Week 9
10/29
  • Tuesday
  • Thursday

Week 10
11/5
  • Tuesday: Otelia Cromwell Day
  • Thursday

 

Week 11
11/12
  • Tuesday
  • Thursday

Week 12
11/19
  • Tuesday: Guest Lecture (DT @ INFOCOMP 2013)
  • Thursday: Tentative guest lecture: Nick Howe on CUDA and GPUs

 

Week 13
11/26
  • Tuesday
  • Thursday: Thanksgiving Break

Week 14
12/3
  • Tuesday
  • Thursday

 

Week 15
12/10
  • Tuesday: Last Day of Class



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