| Tuesday | Thursday | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | 31 August Intro to Cluster Computing Lecture 1 Notes |
2 September Cluster Computing Background Lecture 2 Notes |
4 September Top500 List Lecture 3 Notes |
| Week 2 | 7 September No Class, Labor Day |
9 September Speedup/Scaling/Performance Measurement Lecture 4 Notes |
11 September Performance Counters / SLURM Lecture 5 Notes |
| Week 3 | 14 September No Class, NSF Workshop |
16 September Cluster Building / Job Scheduling Computer Architecture Review Lecture 6 Notes |
18 September Sobel Convolution Lecture 7 Notes |
| Week 4 | 21 September Comp Arch Review -- Superscalar, OoO Lecture 8 Notes |
23 September Comp Arch Review -- CMP/SMT/NUMA Lecture 9 Notes |
25 September SIMD/Vector Math Lecture 10 Notes |
| Week 5 | 28 September Multi-Threading Lecture 11 Notes |
30 September Locking Lecture 12 Notes |
2 October Pthreads Lecture 13 Notes Sample Code |
| Week 6 | 5 October OpenMP Intro Lecture 14 Notes |
7 October OpenMP: Work Sharing Lecture 15 Notes |
9 October OpenMP Examples Lecture 16 Notes Sample Code |
| Week 7 | 12 October Fall Break |
14 October Distributed Systems, Interconnects Lecture 17 Notes |
16 October MPI Lecture 18 Notes |
| Week 8 | 19 October First Midterm |
21 October No Class -- Engineering Job Fair |
23 March MPI Examples Lecture 19 Notes Sample Code |
| Week 9 | 26 October MPI HW Hints / HPC Reliability Lecture 20 Notes |
28 October Hardware Faults / SEUs Lecture 21 Notes |
30 October Fault Tolerance / Checkpointing Lecture 22 Notes |
| Week 10 | 2 November Accelerators / GPU Background Lecture 23 Notes |
4 November GPGPU Lecture 24 Notes |
6 November NVIDIA/CUDA Programming Lecture 25 Notes |
| Week 11 | 9 November More CUDA Lecture 26 Notes Sample Code |
11 November Veteran's Day |
13 November Virtualization, Cloud, Containers |
| Week 12 | 16 November Python, Big Data |
18 November Cluster Filesystems, Hadoop, Spark |
20 November Other Accels, OpenCL |
| Week 13 | 23 November ???? |
25 November Thanksgiving |
27 November Thanksgiving |
| Week 14 | 30 November The future of HPC, Next Stop: Zettascale |
2 December Exam Review |
4 December Second Exam |
| Week 15 | 7 December Project Presentations |
9 December Project Presentations |
11 December Project Presentations |