CS 239 Parallel Programming Languages Spring 2011

• Time and place: Tue+Thu 4-6pm, 5272 Boelter Hall.
• Professor: Jens Palsberg (palsberg@ucla.edu).
• Motivation for the course: learn new programming abstractions that will be useful for programming clusters of multi-core computers, GPUs, and supercomputers. I hope the course can help kick-start new research projects.
• Reading list.
• Homework. Homework 1 is due Thu May 12, 2011, 2pm. Homework 2 is due Thu Jun 9, 2011, 2pm.
• Lectures:
  • Tue Mar 29, Thu Mar 31: overview, historical perspective, the landscape of parallel computing research, parallelism, synchronization, data distribution; example: map-reduce.
  • Tue Apr 5, Thu Apr 7: X10, examples, core language, semantics, type system.
  • Tue Apr 12, Thu Apr 14: static analysis of parallel programs; may-happen-in-parallel analysis of X10 programs.
  • Tue Apr 19, Thu Apr 21: optimistic parallelism requires abstractions; software behavior oriented parallelization.
  • Tue Apr 26, Thu Apr 28: connection between functional programming and parallel programming; inversion generates divide-and-conquer parallel programs.
  • Tue May 3, Thu May 5: actors and actor semantics.
  • Tue May 10, Thu Mar 12: no class.
  • Tue May 17: demo day (Homework 1).
  • Thu May 19:
    • CUDA: Ethan Chen, William Chiu, Wenchuan Weng.
    • OpenCL: David Woo, David Hwang.
    • OpenCL: Sen Li, Bo Yuan.
  • Tue May 24:
    • Haskell: Shashank Neelam, Gauresh Rane, Sumedh Sakdeo.
    • Haskell: Jiwen Cai, Yingdi Yu.
    • NESL: Ran Gelles, Xiuming Chen, Petch Wannissorn.
  • Thu May 26:
    • Pig latin: Mohsen Lesani, Michael Gray.
    • Chapel: Chen Guo, Matt.
  • Tue May 31:
    • Titanium: Marco Vitanza, Tarun Solanki.
    • ZPL: Saro Meguerdichian, James Wendt.
  • Thu Jun 2:
    • Erlang: Madhuri Venkatesh, Mohan Maiya.
    • Go: Rohit Kumar, Raghu Prabhakar.