Advanced Topics in Parallel Computing

Vorlesung mit Übung im Sommersemester 2020
Prof. Dr. D. Kranzlmüller, Dr. K. Fürlinger

This course will be held in English!

Welcome to the course page for Advanced Topics in Parallel Computing for summer term 2020 at LMU Munich. Here you will find details on the lecture and the accompanying practical lab exercises.

While presence lectures are not possible, the plan for remote teaching/learning for "Advanced Topics in Parallel Computing" in SS2020 is as follows:

• Instead of presence lectures I'll provide pre-recorded videos for the lecture material. The videos will for the most part just contain slides and narration/explanation.
• For the labs the plan is to hold them in the form of interactive video conferences. Thus the labs would also be venue for interaction regarding the contents of the lecture (i.e, questions, comments, etc.). The plan is to hold these video conferences at the originally scheduled time for the lab, i.e., Fr 14-16 Uhr.

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Content

The lecture will cover the following topics:

• Memory consistency models
• C++ atomic types and operations
• Synchronization algorithms (barriers, locks)
• Concurrent objects
• Lock-freedom and wait-freedom
• Collective communication algorithms
• Co-routines
• Dataflow approaches
• FPGAs

Audience

The course is intended for master students of computer science. Successful prior participation in the introductory course Parallel and High Performance Computing or a similar lecture is required.

Important Dates

• Lecture: Wednesday 16:15 - 17:45,
  Oettingenstr. 67, Room 151. First lecture: April 22, 2020
• Lab Exercise: Friday 14:15 - 15:30,
  Oettingenstr. 67, Room 161. First lab: April 24, 2020
• Please keep an eye on News for any short-term changes and announcements.

Downloads

Lecture slides will be made available chapter-by-chapter through this webpage.

Further Reading

	Michael L. Scott "Shared-memory synchronization" Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture (2013). (Publisher's website)
	Vijay Nagarajan, Daniel J. Sorin, Mark D. Hill, David A. Wood "A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence, Second Edition" Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture (2020). (Publisher's website)
	Anthony Williams "C++ Concurrency in Action", 2nd Edition (2017). (Publisher's website)
	Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit "The Art of Multiprocessor Programming", Revised Reprint (2012). (Publisher's website)

Registration

Please register for the course on Uni2Work.

Contact

Via email and/or after the lecture and lab exercises.

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