From smart phones, to multi-core CPUs and GPUs, to the world's largest supercomputers and web sites, parallel processing is ubiquitous in modern computing. The goal of this course is to provide a deep understanding of the fundamental principles and engineering trade-offs involved in designing modern parallel computing systems as well as to teach parallel programming techniques necessary to effectively utilize these machines. Because writing good parallel programs requires an understanding of key machine performance characteristics, this course will cover both parallel hardware and software design.
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Jan 17 |
Assignment 1 out
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Jan 24 |
Assignment 1 due
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Jan 29 |
Assignment 2 out
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Jan 31 | |
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Feb 12 |
Assignment 2 due
Assignment 3 out
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Feb 19 |
No class (students hack away blissfully on Assignment 3...)
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Feb 28 |
Assignment 3 due
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Mar 5 |
Exam I
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Mar 7 | |
Mar 11-15 |
Spring Break
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Mar 19 | |
Mar 21 |
Assignment 4 out
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Apr 4 |
Assignment 4 due (Fri April 5)
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Apr 9 |
Project Proposal Due (Wed April 10)
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Apr 11 | |
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Apr 18 |
No class (Carnival: CMU holiday)
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Apr 23 | |
Apr 25 |
Project Checkpoint Due (Fri April 26)
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Apr 30 |
Exam II
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May 2 | |
May 13 |
Final Projects Due
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due Jan 24 | Assignment 1: Analyzing Parallel Program Performance on a Quad-Core CPU |
due Feb 12 | Assignment 2: A Simple Renderer in CUDA |
due Feb 28 | Assignment 3: Wandering Salesperson |
due Apr 5 | Assignment 4: A Simple, Elastic Web Server |
weekly | Guidelines and Tips for Making Good Lecture Comments |
How to Write a Good Lecture Explanation | |
due May 13 | Final Project / Parallelism Competition Guidelines (proposal due Apr 10, checkpoint due Apr 26, final writeup and presentation due on May 13.) |
Special thanks to NVIDIA Corporation for their equipment donation to support GPU-computing assignments and projects. Intel Corporation has also provided financial support. Amazon provided an AWS Education Grant to support this course. Todd Mowry created the original version of 15-418 and much of the structure of his innovative course persists today. Thanks to Matt Pharr and Warren Hunt for technical assistance with ISPC. Solomon Boulos is now getting the credit he deserves.