UCLA CS 239 Parallel Programming Languages Fall 2007

• Time and place: Mon, Wed 2:00-3:50pm, 5272 Boelter Hall.
• Professor: Jens Palsberg, 4531K Boelter Hall (palsberg@ucla.edu). Office hours: Mon, Wed 4-5pm (after each lecture) in 4810 Boelter Hall.
• Motivation for the course: learn new programming abstractions that will be useful for programming multi-core computers. The course will be almost entirely about papers on parallel programming languages, most of them less than two years old. I will give half of the lectures, and the participants will give lectures too! I hope the course can help kick-start new research projects in the area.
• Prerequisite: one of CS 231 Types and Programming Languages, CS 232 Static Program Analysis, CS 234 Computer-Aided Verification. If you want to take the course and lack the prerequisite, please contact me.
• Reading list.
• Groups.
• Lectures:
  • Mon Oct 1: lecture, overview, historical perspective.
  • Wed Oct 3: lecture, sketching stencils.
  • Mon Oct 8: no lecture.
  • Wed Oct 10: lecture, optimistic parallelism requires abstractions.
  • Mon Oct 15: lecture, automatic support for irregular computations in a high-level language.
  • Wed Oct 17: lecture, software behavior oriented parallelization.
  • Mon Oct 22: no lecture.
  • Wed Oct 24: no lecture.
  • Mon Oct 29: lecture, automatic inversion generates divide-and-conquer parallel programs.
  • Wed Oct 31: lecture, effective automatic parallelization of stencil computations.
  • Mon Nov 5: no lecture.
  • Wed Nov 7: lecture, a type system for distributed arrays.
  • Mon Nov 12: no lecture, Veterans Day holiday.
  • Wed Nov 14: language presentation, Co-Array Fortran (slides).
  • Mon Nov 19: language presentation, ZPL (slides).
  • Wed Nov 21: language presentation, Titanium (slides).
  • Mon Nov 26: language presentation, Rapidmind (slides).
  • Wed Nov 28: language presentation, Chapel (slides).
  • Mon Dec 3: language presentation, X10 (slides).
  • Wed Dec 5: language presentation, Fortress (slides).