Location & Time
TR 4.15 PM-5.30 PM
101 Walker Building
Instructor
Kamesh Madduri
Office hours:
TR 9.30 AM-11.00 AM (343E IST)
Appointment (
cal)
Important Dates
Jan 08. First class
Jan 24. Assessment 1 due
Feb 05. HW 1 due
Feb 26. Assessment 2 due
Feb 26. Assessment 3 due
Feb 28. Midterm exam
Apr 16. HW 2 due
Apr 24. HW 3 due
Apr 25. Mini project submission
Apr 30. Final exam
Overview
This class introduces students to parallel programming and the design of parallel algorithms for scientific applications. We will also study challenges with concurrent execution and synchronization on current shared- and distributed-memory systems, and solution techniques. For the Spring 2013 semester, the lecture hours for this class are combined with CSE 557, the graduate class on parallel scientific computing. The evaluation and grading schemes are different. If you have already taken CSE 557, you must not take CMPSC 450.
Topics
- Parallel Algorithm Design and Analysis
- Models for algorithm analysis, Sources of concurrency, Overview of current parallel systems.
- High-performance Parallel Programming
- Programming models and libraries (MPI, OpenMP, CUDA), Optimizations for serial performance, Memory locality
- Parallelization Techniques
- Divide and conquer, Balanced trees, Pointer jumping, Pipelining, Randomization.
- Applications
- Dense linear algebra, Sparse matrix computations, Sorting, FFT, N-body methods, Graph Analytics.
Syllabus
Last updated Jan 7. 
Schedule, Lecture notes
Please join the class on Piazza.
Textbook
Georg Hager and Gerhard Wellein,
Introduction to High Performance Computing for Scientists and Engineers, CRC Press, 2010.
Prerequisites
CMPSC 121, CMPSC 201 or CMPSC 202 (students must be proficient in sequential programming and C/C++); MATH 220; MATH 230 or MATH 231.
Class material
Homeworks and Assessments will be posted on Angel. We will use
Piazza for class discussions and announcements.
Lecture slides and other resources will also be available on Piazza.
