6.884 Concepts in Multicore Programming
Spring 2010

Instructors: Charles E. Leiserson, Bradley C Kuszmaul
TA: Jim Sukha
Lecture: TR9.30-11   (66-154)

The main website for 6.884 is located on Stellar.

6.884 Lab Archive

In the first half of 6.884, students were introduced to multicore programming and Cilk technology through a series of lectures and week-long labs. Unlike assignments for a traditional class which require all students to complete predefined tasks for a grade, these labs were intended to be more open-ended, and encourage exploration.

6.884 Term Projects

In the latter half of the semester, the students in 6.884 worked on a term project. The goal of the project was for students to parallelize an application of their own choosing, applying what they had learned about multicore programming and Cilk technology earlier in the semester. For the project, each group was required to (1) submit a report, in the style of a conference paper, (2) give a 20 minute presentation, and (3) make their source code available. Results of the term projects are shown below: