Weekly References for CS240A (Updated every week)

• Weeks 1-2: Introduction. Memory hierarchy
  Introduction to Parallel and High Performance Computing
  Parallel Architectures and Performance
  Caches and memory hierarchy Part I , Part II, Part III
  Intel SIMD programming ( ppt, pdf)

  Additional reference: Chapter 2 of Book Introduction to Parallel Programming by Peter Pacheco.

  Homework 1

• Weeks 3-4: Shared and Distributed Memory Programming
  Pthreads
  OpenMP (ppt, pdf)
  MPI Part I, MPI Part II
  Program Transformation I, II.

  Additional references: Pthreads, OpenMP. MPI.
  Chapter 3 of Book Introduction to Parallel Programming by Peter Pacheco.

• Weeks 5-6: GPU, MapReduce, and Spark
  GPU Programming I
  Hadoop and MapReduce
  Use MapReduce at Comet (pdf)
  Spark. (Use Spark at Comet)

  Additional references:

  • GPU by Burak Himmetoglu
  • MapReduce (Tutorialspoint), Apache MapReduce Tutorial.
    
  • Spark
    

  Homework 2. Hints for PageRank assignment

• Weeks 7-8: GPU and Machine Learning Applications
  Advanced GPU Programming II, III
  Parallel machine learning applications

• Weeks 9-10: Parallel Scientific Computing and Project Presentation
  Parallel methods for ODEs and PDEs