Lecture Notes
Notes for selected lectures are available below.
| SES # | TOPICS | LECTURE NOTES |
|---|---|---|
| L1 | Matrix multiply: a case study | (PDF) |
| L2 | Basic performance engineering | (PDF) |
| L3 | Performance analysis primer | |
| L4 | From C to machine code/assembler | (PDF) |
| L5 | Computer architecture and performance engineering | (PDF) |
| L6 | Memory systems and performance engineering | (PDF) |
| L7 | Algorithms and data structures for caches I | (PDF) |
| L8 | Algorithms and data structures for caches II | (PDF) |
| L9 | Dynamic storage allocation | (PDF) |
| L10 |
Case study I Guest lecture: Bradley Kuszmaul, MIT CSAIL | |
| L11 | Multicore programming | (PDF) |
| L12 | Parallelism and performance | (PDF - 1.3MB) |
| L13 | Analysis of multithreaded algorithms | (PDF) |
| L14 | Nondeterministic programming | (PDF) |
| L15 | Synchronizing without locks | (PDF) |
| L16 |
Experiences in coding high-performance numerical libraries Guest lecture: Matteo Frigo, Intel |
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| L17 | Ray tracing primer | |
| L18 | Performance issues in parallelization | (PDF - 1.6MB) |
| L19 | What compilers can and cannot do | (PDF) |
| L20 | Distributed systems | (PDF - 1.3MB) |
| L21 | Case study II | |
| L22 | Case study III | |
| L23 | Final project showcase |
