Tentative Schedule of lectures: This schedule is relatively fluid and will change as the quarter progresses.
Week Date Topic Note 1-Oct Introduction and overview 6-Oct Redundancy Removal: IRs and DAG-based Methods 8-Oct Redundancy Removal: SVN & DVN HW1 out 13-Oct GCSE (Paper list out.) 15-Oct Guest Lecture 20-Oct Data Flow Analysis 22-Oct SSA (HW1 due, HW2 out.) 27-Oct SSA + Dead Code Elimination 29-Oct Partial Redundancy Elimination 3-Nov Parallelsim and data dependence (First paper review due.) 5-Nov Parallelsim and data dependence (HW3 out, HW2 due.) 10-Nov No class 12-Nov Student Presentations and Discusssion Suriya Dakshina Murthy (#11 Dominance-based duplication simulation (DBDS): code duplication to enable compiler optimizations); Dengxian Yang (#15 GLORE: generalized loop redundancy elimination upon LER-notation) 17-Nov Student Presentations and Discusssion Huake He (#9. What every scientific programmer should know about compiler optimizations?); Jacqueline Mai (#12 IDEal : Efficient and Precise Alias-Aware Dataflow Analysis) 19-Nov Student Presentations and Discusssion Shlomi Steinberg (#2 Halide: a language and compiler for optimizing parallelism, locality, and recomputation in image processing pipelines); Jeff Longo (#18 Delite: A Compiler Architecture for Performance-Oriented Embedded Domain-Specific Languages) 24-Nov Student Presentation and Discusssion Pengfei Xu (#3 Opentuner: An extensible framework for program autotuning); David Weinflash (#19 PolyMage: Automatic Optimization for Image Processing Pipelines) 26-Nov Holiday - no class 1-Dec Student Presentation and Project Discusssion (HW3 and second paper review Due.)Kaiqi Zhang (#25. CHET: Compiler and Runtime for Homomorphic Evaluation of Tensor Programs) 3-Dec Extra Readings: SIMD and Cache Optimization 8-Dec Final Project Presentation