2009 Course Calendar

Lecture 1 (2/4) Introduction
Slides
Lecture 2 (2/9) Parallel Computing's Challenges
Slides
Video: William Shatner's Priceline Supercomputer Advertisement
Lecture 3 (2/11) Star-P
Interactive Supercomputing website
Lecture 4 (2/17) More on Star-P and Intro to Parallel Prefix
Handout
HW1 Announced
Lecture 5 (2/18) Parallel Prefix
Slides
Handout
Lecture 6 (2/23) CUDA (Guest Lecture by Nicolas Pinto)
HW1 Due
Lecture 7 (2/25) Matrix Multiply
Slides
Lecture 8 (3/2) Matrix Multiply
Slides
HW2 Announced
Lecture 9 (3/4) Matrix Multiply
Slides
Lecture 10 (3/9) Slides
Lecture 11 (3/11) LU Factorization
Slides
Lecture 12 (3/16) Star-P SDK Overview (Guest Speaker: Raghunathan Sudarshan)
Lecture 13 (3/18) Projects
3/23 (M) No lecture Spring break
3/25 (W) No lecture Spring break
Lecture 14 (3/30) Partitioning
Slides
Lecture 15 (4/1) Student Project Presentation
Lecture 16 (4/6) Student Project Presentation
Lecture 17 (4/8) Student Project Presentation
Lecture 18 (4/13) Student Project Presentation
Lecture 19 (4/15) Sparse Matrix Methods
Slides
4/20 (M) No lecture Patriots Day
Lecture 20 (4/22) Sparse Matrix Methods
Slides
4/24 (Friday) Project Progress Reports Due Progress Reports Due
Lecture 21 (4/27) Guest Lecture by Larry Rudolph
Lecture 22 (4/29) Domain Decomposition
Lecture notes
Lecture 23 (5/4) Fast Multipole Method I
Lecture 24 (5/6) Fast Multipole Method II
Lecture 25 (5/11) Fast Multipole Method III
Lecture 26 (5/13) Last Lecture
Final Reports and Slides Due


For reference:
Spring 2008 calendar
Spring 2006 calendar
Spring 2004 calendar
Spring 2003 calendar
Spring 2002 calendar