Schedule
This schedule should be considered tentative and subject to change, at least until it actually takes place!
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1 | Tue, | Aug 22 | Introduction | |
Thu, | Aug 24 | Performance basics [Notes] | ||
2 | Tue, | Aug 29 | Single processor architecture |
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Thu, | Aug 31 | Basic optimizations |
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3 | Tue, | Sep 05 | Basic optimizations |
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Thu, | Sep 07 | Parallel machines and models | ||
4 | Tue, | Sep 12 | Parallelism and locality in simulations | |
Thu, | Sep 14 | Parallelism and locality in simulations |
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5 | Tue, | Sep 19 | Distributed memory programming | |
Thu, | Sep 21 | Distributed memory programming |
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6 | Tue, | Sep 26 | Shared memory programming |
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Thu, | Sep 28 | Shared memory programming |
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7 | Tue, | Oct 03 | Heterogeneity and accelerators |
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Thu, | Oct 05 | Heterogeneity and accelerators [Notes] | ||
8 | Tue, | Oct 10 | Fall break | |
Thu, | Oct 12 | VMs, containers, and clouds |
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9 | Tue, | Oct 17 | Dense linear algebra | |
Thu, | Oct 19 | Dense linear algebra |
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10 | Tue, | Oct 24 | Sparse linear algebra | |
Thu, | Oct 26 | Sparse linear algebra | ||
11 | Tue, | Oct 31 | Transforms and data sparsity (Damle) | |
Thu, | Nov 02 | Asynchronous methods (Udell) |
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12 | Tue, | Nov 07 | Graph partitioning |
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Thu, | Nov 09 | Load balancing | ||
13 | Tue, | Nov 14 | Parallel graph algorithms | |
Thu, | Nov 16 | The impact of floating point | ||
14 | Tue, | Nov 21 | Mixing languages, libraries, and frameworks |
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Thu, | Nov 23 | Thanksgiving | ||
15 | Tue, | Nov 28 | Project presentations | |
Thu, | Nov 30 | Project presentations |