Lecture Slides 2012

This page contains links to lecture slides for the current year. It is getting filled as we go. (See last year lecture slides here.)

The slides here are provided for the purpose of the COEN 319 course at Santa Clara University and cannot be used for any other purpose. They have been composed from various sources online and offline, including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, NVIDIA, Addison-Wesley / Prentice Hall, etc., and their copyright remains with original copyright holders. Contact the instructor ehodzic@scudc.scu.edu for more info.

Week 1:

• Syllabus

• Introduction

• Reasoning about Performance

• Homework 1

Week 2:

• Reasoning about Performance

• POSIX Threads

• Homework 2

Week 3:

• Homework 1 Review

• POSIX Threads

• Java Threads

• Writing Parallel Programs

• OpenMP

• Homework 3

Week 4:

• Homework 2 Review

• OpenMP

• Parallel Abstractions

• Sample Exam

Week 5:

• • Midterm (on Tuesday)

• Parallel Abstractions

• Reduce and Scan Examples

  • scan.peril-l

  • prefix-sum.peril-l

  • last-occurrence.peril-l

• Homework 3 Review

• Homework 4

• Project Guidelines

Week 6:

• Homework 4

• Midterm Review

• Parallel Abstractions

• CUDA Introduction

• SCU Design Center CUDA

  • • setup

    • nvcc

    • docs

• • Examples:

    • vectorAdd

    • deviceQuery

    • bandwidthTest

  • count3s

  • Project proposal due end of week 7

Week 7:

• count3s

• Homework 4 Review

• CUDA Overview

• CUDA Memory Optimizations

• Homework 5

  • • due on 3/1/12

Week 8:

• Homework 4 Review

• CUDA Memory Optimizations

  • • matrix transpose example

    • see document in SDK/.../src/transpose/doc/*.pdf

• CUDA Further Optimizations

  • • execution configuration

    • instruction

    • (skip multi-gpu and graphics interoperability)

• • Matrix Multiplication in CUDA

    • CUDA C Programming Guide

    • SDK example

  • CUDA Profiler

    • Command Line

    • GUI

Week 9:

• Homework 5 Review

• OpenCL Overview

• MPI

Week 10:

• PGAS

• Global View Languages

• State of the Art and Future Directions

  • Final (on Thursday, 3/15/12)

Week 11:

• Project Presentations

  • • Tuesday 3/20/12

    • Thursday 3/22/12