| Week | Topic | Readings | Slides | Programming/Project | |
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| Jan. 08 | L1 Introduction |  |
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| Jan. 13 | L2 Message Passing & Shared Memory | |
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| L3 Shared-Memory and Synchronization | |
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| Intro to Xeon Phi | |
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| Jan. 20 | MLK - No Lecture | ||||
| L4 Synchronization | |
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| Project Introduction | |
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| Jan. 27 | L5 Transactional Memory | |
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| L6 Data-level Parallelism | |
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| Paper/Lec Discussion | |||||
| Feb. 03 | L7 Snooping Coherence | |
Project Proposal Due (2/5) | ||
| L8 Bus-Based SMPs | |
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| Feb. 10 | L9 Directory-based Coherence | |
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| L10 Memory Consistency I | |
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| Murphi | |
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| Feb. 17 | L11 End-to-End SC | |
PA1 Due (2/17) | ||
| L12 Weaker Consistency Models | |
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| Feb. 24 | L13 Midterm Review | |
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| Feb. 26 | Midterm Exam - 3-4:30pm, Location: TBD | ||||
| Paper/Lec Discussion | |||||
| Mar. 10 | L14 GPUs | |
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| L15 GPU Programming | |
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| Milestone Meetings | |||||
| Paper/Lec Discussion | |||||
| Mar. 17 | L16 GPU Optimizations | |
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| L17 Accelerators Intro | |
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| Paper/Lec Discussion | PA2 Waypoint (3/21) | ||||
| Mar. 24 | L18 Genomics Accelerators | |
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| L19 No Lecture | |||||
| Paper/Lec Discussion | |||||
| Mar. 31 | L20 No Lecture | ||||
| L21 | |||||
| Milestone Meetings | |||||
| Paper/Lec Discussion | |||||
| Apr. 07 | L22 | PA2 Due (4/8) | |||
| L23 | |||||
| Paper/Lec Discussion | |||||
| Apr. 14 | L24 | ||||
| L25 | |||||
| Paper/Lec Discussion | |||||
| Apr. 21 | L26 | ||||
| L27 | |||||
| Project Presentations contd. (tentative) | |||||
| April 28 | Final Exam 10:30am-12:30pm, Location: TBD |