CS 365: Schedule
This page lists the topics and readings for each class. Please do the reading before coming to class.
This schedule will be updated occasionally: all updates will be announced in class and posted on the course web page.
Date | Topic/Activity | Reading |
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Jan 22 | C Review | Lecture 1: C Pointers and Dynamic Memory Allocation |
Jan 27 | Parallel computation | Lecture 2: Intro to Parallel Computation, Chapters 1–2 |
Jan 29 | MPI | Lecture 3: MPI, Sections 3.1–3.3 (p. 83–101) |
Feb 3 | Elements of a Parallel Program | Lecture 4: Elements of a Parallel Program |
Feb 5 | ||
Feb 10 | MPI Collective Communications | Lecture 5: MPI Collective Communications, Section 3.4 (p. 101–116) |
Feb 12 | ||
Feb 17 | MPI Derived Datatypes | Lecture 6: MPI Derived Datatypes, Section 3.5 (p. 116–119) |
Feb 19 | MPI Performance | Lecture 7: MPI Performance, Section 3.6 (p. 119–127) |
Feb 24 | MPI Review | |
Feb 26 | Exam 1 | |
Mar 3 | Winter vacation, no class | |
Mar 5 | Winter vacation, no class | |
Mar 10 | Pthreads introduction | Lecture 8: Introduction to pthreads |
Mar 12 | Mutexes | Lecture 9: Mutexes, Sections 4.1–4.6 |
Mar 17 | Condition Variables | Lecture 10: Condition Variables, Sections 4.7–4.8 |
Mar 19 | Reader/writer locks, thread safety | Lecture 11: Reader/Writer Locks, Sections 4.9–4.11 |
Mar 24 | Java Threads, Synchronization | Lecture 12: Java Threads, Synchronization |
Mar 26 | Fork/Join Parallelism | Lecture 13: Fork/Join Parallelism, Doug Lea: A Java Fork/Join Framework |
Mar 31 | Work day | |
Apr 7 | Lock-free data structures | Lecture 14: Lock-free data structures, Maged Michael and Michael Scott, Simple, Fast, and Practical Non-Blocking and Blocking Concurrent Queue Algorithms |
Apr 9 | Sockets | Lecture 15: Socket programming in C |
Apr 14 | Java Sockets | Lecture 16: Socket programming in Java |
Apr 16 | Work day | |
Apr 21 | GPGPU Computation, CUDA | Lecture 17: GPGPU Programming, CUDA |
Apr 23 | GPGPU Computation | Lecture 18: CUDA Threads |
Apr 28 | Concurrency in Clojure | Lecture 19: Concurrency in Clojure |
Apr 30 | Exam 2 | |
May 5 | Concurrency in Erlang | Lecture 20: Concurrency in Erlang |