CS6596 High-Performance Parallel Computing

GIAN course
Instructors: P. Sadayappan and Rupesh Nasre.
TA: Jyothi Krishna V S
Dates: June 20 -- July 1, 2016
Venue: MSB 360, IIT Madras

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Evaluation Schedule:

  • Total number of lectures: 30
  • Number of credits: 2
  • Evaluation: 60% for assignments, 40% for written exam.
Evaluation Weightage Due date Topic
Programming assignment 1 15% June 24 Locality modeling
Programming assignment 2 15% June 27 OpenMP
Programming assignment 3 15% June 30 CUDA
Programming assignment 4 15% July 2 Vectorization, code
Written Examination 40% July 4 All topics
Note that although the classes are till July 1, the evaluation would be till July 4.

Important notes.

  1. A google group is created for all the participants where all the announcements are made. If you are not part of it, meet the course coordinator in person during the lectures.
  2. All the registered participants would receive a participation certificate. If you are crediting the course, it is compulsory to submit assignments and to write the exam. On successful completion of the course, you would receive a grade-card from the institute (within a few weeks of completing the course).
  3. You need to bring a laptop for assignments. We will provide you wifi access and access to a remote server on which you can compile and run your programs.
  4. All the participants crediting the course are expected to be around till July 4. The remaining participants are free after July 1.