2012 Course Calendar

See the 2011 course calendar (or other past years) for a more detailed view of what might be covered.

Lecture 1 (9/5) Introduction
Lecture 2 (9/10) Parallel prefix
HW1 out
Lecture 3 (9/12) Types of parallel computers
(9/17) Lecture Cancelled
Lecture 4 (9/19) Guest lecture by Jeremy Kepner HW1 due, HW2 out
Lecture 5 (9/24) Map/Reduce
(9/26) Lecture Cancelled
Lecture 6 (10/1) Map/Reduce HW2 due
Lecture 7 (10/3) Partitioning
(10/8) MIT Holiday Columbus day
Lecture 8 (10/10) Geometric partitioning
8pm project ideas session (slides)
Lecture 9 (10/15)
Lecture 10 (10/17)
Lecture 11 (10/22) Project proposals due
Lecture 12 (10/24)
Lecture 13 (10/29) No lecture MIT closed
Lecture 14 (10/31) FFT
Lecture 15 (11/5) FFT
Lecture 16 (11/7) SVD-based data analysis
(11/12) No lecture
Veterans Day
Lecture 17 (11/14) Linear algebra for graphs, pagerank
Lecture 18 (11/19)
(11/21) No lecture
Thanksgiving
Lecture 19 (11/26)
Lecture 20 (11/28) Guest lecture by Toby Bloom
Lecture 21 (12/3)
Lecture 22 (12/5) Project presentations
Lecture 23 (12/10) Project presentations
Lecture 24 (12/12) Project presentations
12/14
Project reports due