CS267 GSI Page
Applications of Parallel Computers
Spring 2008 Instructor: Dr. Horst Simon
Note: Researchers from LBNL/CRD frequently conduct and participate in
the UC Berkeley course CS267 "Applciations of Parallel Computers".
Here are the lectures for the most recent course:
- 23-Jan-08 Lecture 1: Why Parallel Computing?
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- 28-Jan-08 Lecture 2: High performance on a single processor
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- 30-Jan-08 Lecture 3: Single processor performance tuning
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- 04-Feb-08 Lecture 4: Introduction to parallel machines
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- 06-Feb-08 Lecture 5: Shared memory machines, threads, and OpenMP
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- 11-Feb-08 Lecture 6: Distributed memory machines and intro to MPI
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- 13-Feb-08 Lecture 7: Programming in MPI (Guest: Jonathan Carter)
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- 18-Feb-08 no lecture Holiday (President's Day)
- 22-Feb-08 Lecture 8: Sources of Parallelism and Locality I
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- 25-Feb-08 Lecture 9: Sources of Parallelism and Locality II
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- 27-Feb-08 Lecture 10: Dense linear algebra 1 (Guest: Jim Demmel)
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- 03-Mar-08 Lecture 11: Dense linear algebra 2 (Guest: Jim Demmel)
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- 05-Mar-08 Lecture 12: Structured grids
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- 10-Mar-08 Lecture 13: Global address space programming in UPC
(Guest: Kathy Yelick)
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- 12-Mar-08 Lecture 14: Titanium (Guest Kathy Yelick)
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- 17-Mar-08 Lecture 15: Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiply
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- 19-Mar-08 Lecture 16: Sparse direct methods (Guest: Xiaoye Sherry
Li)
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- 24-Mar-08 Spring Break
- 26-Mar-08 Spring Break
- 31-Mar-08 Lecture 17: Parallel Application Scaling, Performance,
and Efficiency (Guest: David Skinner)
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- 02-Apr-08 Lecture 18: Graph partitioning
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- 07-Apr-08 Lecture 19: Graph partitioning (cont)
- 09-Apr-08 Lecture 20: FFTs and Spectral methods (Guest: David
Bailey)
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- 14-Apr-08 Lecture 21: Dynamic load balancing
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- 16-Apr-08 Lecture 22: Multigrid on structured grids and particle
methods (N-body)
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- 21-Apr-08 Lecture 23: Climate modeling (Guest: Michael Wehner)
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- 23-Apr-08 Lecture 24: Computational Astrophysics (Guest: Julian
Borrill)
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- 28-Apr-08 Lecture 25: Parallelism in graphics and visualization
(Guest: Wes Bethel)
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- 30-Apr-08 Lecture 26: Autotuning for Multicore Architectures
(Guest: Sam Williams)
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- 05-May-08 Lecture 27: Case of the Missing Supercomputer
Performance (Guest: John Shalf)
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- 07-May-08 Lecture 28: Volunteer computing (Guest: David Anderson)
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- 12-May-08 Lecture 29: Future of parallel computing