CSE436 and 536: Concurrent and Multicore Programming, Winter 2017

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Oakland University

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Instructor

• Yonghong Yan, yan@oakland.edu
• Office: 534 Engineering Center; Tel: (248) 370 4087
• Office Hours: After class or by appointment
• Meeting Time: 3:30 pm – 5:17 pm Monday and Wednesday;
• Class Room: EC 550
• Check http://www.oakland.edu/important-dates for other important date/deadline

Syllabus and Resources

• Syllabus
• Resources

Schedule, Topics, Lecture Notes and Assignments

• Assignment submission need to be done from Moodle
• Assignment due 11:55PM on the date, cut-off date is 72 hours after the due date/time

Week	Date	Week date	Class	Content	Lecture Notes	Resources	Assignment
1	01/02	Monday
	01/04	Wednesday	1	Introduction	Intro
2	01/09	Monday	2	Review of C programming, Compiler, Makefile, Linux and SSH access	Linux and C	Linux and C, sum.c	Assignment 1
	01/11	Wednesday	3	C array and memory, class exercise, PAPI, and Assignment 1	PAPI Interface	Check PAPI section in the Resources page, axpy-papi.c
3	01/16	Monday		MKL Jr. Day, no class
	01/18	Wednesday	4	OpenMP parallel and worksharing	OpenMP	axpy.c
4	01/23	Monday	5	OpenMP Data Environment, Tasking and Sync		mm.c, sum.c (mm-solution.c, sum-solution.c	Assignment 1 due
	01/25	Wednesday	6	OpenMP Performance Optimization			Assignment 2, jacobi.c
5	01/30	Monday	7	Parallel algorithm design 01	Design 01
	02/01	Wednesday	8	Parallel program decompostion	Decompose_BLAS, Design 02	axpy.c, matvec.c, matmul-decompose.c
6	02/06	Monday	9	Parallel algorithm design 02	Design 02
	02/08	Wednesday	10	Function Pointer and PThread	C Function Pointer, PThread 1	pthread examples	Assignment 2 due
7	02/13	Monday	11	PThread and mutual exclusion	PThread 2		Assignment 3
	02/15	Wednesday	12	Tree barrier implementation			flat_barrier.c, tree_barrier.c
8	02/20	Monday		Winter Recess
	02/22	Wednesday		Winter Recess
9	02/27	Monday	13	Parallel program measurement and analysis	Metrics
	03/01	Wednesday	14	Parallel program measurement and analysis	Scalability		Assignment 3 due
10	03/06	Monday	15	Cilk/Cilkplus	Cilk/Cilkplus		Project #1: LSV, Project #2: TSV
	03/08	Wednesday	16	Parallel architecture (TLP and DLP)	TLP, First slide for project grouping, DLP
11	03/13	Monday	17	Memory hierarchy and cache coherence	Mem and CC
	03/15	Wednesday	18	Project workthrough			Project phase 1 due (03/17)
12	03/20	Monday	19	Manycore and GPU/CUDA	GPU/CUDA Intro
	03/22	Wednesday	20	GPU Threading	GPU/CUDA Threading and Memory
13	03/27	Monday	21	Project workthrough			Project phase 2 due
	03/29	Wednesday	22	GPU memory
14	04/03	Monday	23	GPU (streaming, library and Tuning)	GPU/CUDA Streaming, Library and Tuning
	04/05	Wednesday	24	GPU (OpenMP and OpenACC)	OpenMP/OpenACC for offloading
15	04/10	Monday	25	Distributed memory systems and MPI	Distributed memory	MPI Exercises
	04/12	Wednesday	26	MPI and practices	MPI
16	04/17	Monday	27	Project Presentation	Last class		Project phase 3 due (presentation)
	04/19	Wednesday
17	04/24	Monday		Project Report Due	Project Report		Project phase 4 due
	04/30			Grade due and complete