Closing Thoughts

Date	Day	Lecture	Topic	Readings	Handouts	Due
Motivation
Jan 21	Wed	1	Introduction	Chapter 1	Dr. Dobbs article
Jan 26	Mon	2	No Free Lunch	pp. 88-100, pp. 112-125	Syllabus
Jan 28	Wed	3	Intro to Threads
Feb 2	Mon	4	A Success Story: ISAs	Chapter 2	Assignment 1
Feb 4	Wed	5	Parallel Architectures	Chapter 3
Foundations
Feb 9	Mon	6	Parallel Architectures	Volume Visualization		Pre-proposal, Assignment 1
Feb 11	Wed	7	Intro to MPI		Assignment 2
Feb 16	Mon	8	Sources of Performance Loss
Feb 18	Wed	9	Scalable Performance		Assignment 3	Assignment 2
Feb 23	Mon	10	Scalable Memory Allocation	pp. 125-141
Feb 25	Wed	11	Two Parallel Algorithms			Assignment 3 (due 2/27)
Mar 2	Mon	12	Granularity	pp. 100-110
Mar 4	Wed	13	Performance Optimizations		Assignment 4
Mar 9	Mon	14	Performance Metrics
Mar 11	Wed	15	Trends in the Top 500
Mar 16	Mon		Spring Break
Mar 18	Wed		Spring Break
Languages and Models
Mar 23	Mon	16	SM vs. NSM
Mar 25	Wed	17	Volume Rendering Assignment
Mar 30	Mon	18	SM vs. NSM II		Valiant's Algorithm
Apr 1	Wed	19	HPF
Apr 6	Mon	20	James Balfour talk
Apr 8	Wed	21	Intro to ZPL
Apr 13	Mon	22	ZPL's Performance Model
Apr 15	Wed	23	Performance, Portability, Productivity
Apr 20	Mon	24	Chapel
Apr 22	Wed	25	Language wrap-up
Hot Topics
Apr 27	Mon	26	Libraries as Languages
Apr 29	Wed	27	Transactional Memory
May 4	Mon	28	GPUs, Grids, MapReduce
May 6	Wed	29