ECE459

2012 Winter Programming for Performance

Lectures

# Title
1 Introduction
2 Crash Course in Modern Hardware
3 Parallel Limitations and Concepts
4 Pthreads and Simple Locks
5 restrict Keyword, Race Conditions and More Synchronization
6 Dependencies
7 Speculation and Parallelization Patterns
8 Automatic Parallelization
9 Last Year's Midterm Review
10 OpenMP Basics
11 OpenMP Overview
12 Advanced OpenMP
13 Memory Ordering and Other Atomic Operations
14 Lock Granularity, Reentrancy and Inlining
15 Reentrant/Thread-Safe and Assignments
16 Wacky Wednesday
17 Compiler Optimizations
18 Performance Examples
19 Cache Coherency
20 Basic Profiling
21 More Profiling Tools
22 Assignment 3 Background
23 Midterm Solution/Review
24 MPI
25 Features of OpenCL
26 Programming with OpenCL
27 MapReduce
28 Software Transactional Memory
29 Performance Tweaks
30 High-Performance Languages

Assignments

# Title
1 Monte Carlo Estimation for Pi
2 Parallelizing Mandelbrot
3 Travelling Salesman Problem as Fast as Possible
4 N-body on GPU

Resources

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Syllabus
Midterm
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