Week	Date	Lecture Notes	Homeworks etc
1	1/11, Mon	L1, Introduction [pdf]
1	1/13, Wed	L2, Trends in Parallel Computing [pdf] Report on parallel computing[pdf]	Read the report on parallel computing
2	1/18, Mon	Martin Luther King Jr Holiday No class
2	1/20, Wed	L3, Discussion on state of the art report. Introduction to Parallel Computing [pdf]
3	1/25, Mon	L4 Introduction to Message Passing Computing [pdf]
3	1/27, WEDNESDAY (NB CHANGE)	L5, Guest Lecture by Wim Cardoen on how to use CHPC Parallel machines. Slides [pdf]	Read Chapters 2 and 3 of the Wilkinson and Allen book
3	1/29, FRIDAY 2PM SCI Institute Seminar WEB 3760 (not an official lecture)	Jacqueline Chen, Sandia National Lab - Petascale Computing https://share.sandia.gov/crf/crfnews.php?id=295L5
4	2/1 Mon	L6, Memory hierarchy and Communications[pdf] Embarrassingly Parallel Computing[pdf]	Read Material on Mandelbrot Set
4	2/3 Wed	L7, Intro to using Raven Cluster and verification tools. [Slides]	Log on to the raven or CHPC clusters and run the MPI program [Code] Coursework1[html]
5	2/8, Mon	L8, Mandelbrot set discussion. Synchronous Communications [pdf]
5	2/10 Wed	L9 More on Synchronous Communications
6	2/15 Mon	No lecture - Presidents Day
6	2/17 Weds	L10, Pipelining [pdf]	Hand in Assignment 1
6	2/17 Weds	3.40pm Bronis de Supinski - optional lecture on large scale parallelism [details]
6	2/19, FRIDAY	L11, Partitioning and Divide and Conquer [pdf]
7	2/22 Mon	L12, Performance Evaluation and Isoefficiency [pdf]
7	2/24, Weds	No class
8	3/1, Mon	L13, Performance Evaluation [pdf] Related Paper [link]	Coursework2[html]
8	3/3, Weds	L14, More on Performance Evaluation and Numerical Algorithms [pdf]
9	3/8, Mon	L15 Numerical Algorithms [pdf]
9	3/10, Wed	L16 More on Numerical Algorithms matrix multiplication
10	3/15, Mon	L17 Revision class
10	3/18, Wed	Midterm Exam Revision examples [pdf] 2008 March exam paper [pdf] 2007 March exam paper [pdf] 2005 exam Paper [pdf] Other exam Paper [pdf]. Note that this year sorting and Graph Based load balancing will come later so ignore those questions. The treatment of Parallel Efficiency and matrix multiplication has been revised for this year. Also note that all the material in Chapters 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 11 of Wilkinson and Allen has been covered so far. Please also note that the exam is closed book
11	3/22, Mon	Spring Break
11	3/24, Wed	Spring Break
12	3/29, Mon	L18 Parallel Sorting [pdf]	HW read Scalable sorting paper Google "charm++ parallel sort" to get charm.cs.uiuc.edu/papers/ParSortIPDPS10.pdf Background paper [ps]
12	4/2, FRIDAY	L19, Discussion on Sorting Paper. Slides on Load Balancing [pdf]
13	4/5, Mon	L20, More on Load Balancing [pdf] [pdf]
13	4/9, FRIDAY	L21 Fast Fourier Transforms FFTW [pdf] [pdf]
14	4/12, Mon	L22 More on FFT [pdf] and OPENMP [pdf]
14	4/14, Weds	L23 OPENMP Tutorial [pdf] see also [web]
14	4/16, FRIDAY SCI Institute Seminar WEB 3760 (not an official lecture)	Lecture by Omar Ghattas. University of Texas Austin.
15	4/19, Mon	L24 Slightly revised [pdf]	Coursework3[html]
15	4/21, Weds	L25 OpenMP and performance Sun slides [pdf] [pdf]
15	4/23, FRIDAY 2PM SCI Institute Seminar WEB 3760 (not an official lecture)	Lecture Manish Parashar, NSF Rutgers University TBA
16	4/26, Mon	L26 Quinn's slides on MPI+OpenMP [ppt] Pawlowski's slides on futures [pdf]
16	4/28, Weds	L27 Final Lecture Revision Final paper from 2005-08 see also graph-based load balancing in midterm revision material [pdf] [pdf] [pdf] [pdf]
17	5/6 THURSDAY 8am	Final Exam - date and time as specified by the University. Please note Exam is closed book