CS 6235 - Analysis of Parallel Programs

• Time and Place: Tue (17.00-17.50), Wed (11.00-11.50), Thu (09.00-09.50), Fri (08.00-08.50); F slot. Class: CS24.
• Teacher : V. Krishna Nandivada
• Office hours / Doubt sessions : Anytime.
• TA: Sudeep Chowdhary (cs23s002@cse.iitm.ac.in)
• TA Office hours / Doubt sessions : (fix by email).
  

• Course outline.
• Software, documentation and tools link is here.
• Submission guidelines.
• Discussion website is here (access restricted).
• Texts:
  • Book 1: Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation: Steven Muchnick.
  • Book 2: Principles of Program Analysis: Flemming Nielson, Hanne Riis Nielson, Chris Hankin, Springer, 2005.
  • Book 3: The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, by Maurice Herlihy and Nir Shavit, Morgan Kaufmman Publishers, 1st Edition, Indian Reprint 2012.
  • Book 4: Java Concurrency in Practice by Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls, Joshua Block, Joseph Bowbeer, David Holmes and Doug Lea, Addison Wesley, 1st Edition, 2006

Assignments/Project (50%)

Assignment	What?	Credit	Start date	Mid-Eval date	Due-date
W1	Written Assignment	10%	Feb 04 2025		Feb 11 5pm
A1	Alias Analysis	10%	Feb 18	Feb 25 5pm	Mar 11 11.59pm
A1	EASE (Escape Analysis for Synchronization Elimination)	10%	Mar 11	Mar 18 5pm	Apr 08 11.59pm
A2	(MARD) MHP Analysis for Race Detection	10%	Apr 08	Apr 15 5pm	May 02 11.59pm
Project	Term Project/Paper-reading	10%	Apr 08	Apr 15 5pm	May 02 11.59pm

Written Exams:

• Quiz 1 exam (10%) on Feb 21/22 2025 08am. Closed book, closed notes, closed neighbor. sample solution.
• Quiz 2 exam (10%) on Mar 21 2025 08am. Closed book, closed notes, closed neighbor. sample solution.
• Final exam (30%). on May 14 2025, 9AM-12PM. Closed book, closed notes, closed neighbor. sample solution.