UCLA CS 239 Parallel Programming Languages Winter 2009

• Time and place: Tue, Thu 2:00-3:50pm, 5419 Boelter Hall.
• Professor: Jens Palsberg, 4531K Boelter Hall (palsberg@ucla.edu). Office hours: Tue, Thu 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.
• Reading list.
• Groups.
• Project.
• Lectures:
  • Tue Jan 6: lecture, overview, historical perspective
  • Thu Jan 8: lecture, the landscape of parallel computing research
  • Tue Jan 13: lecture, map-reduce
  • Thu Jan 15: lecture, inversion generates divide-and-conquer parallel programs
  • Tue Jan 20: no lecture
  • Thu Jan 22: no lecture
  • Tue Jan 27: lecture, optimistic parallelism requires abstractions
  • Thu Jan 29: lecture, software behavior oriented parallelization software behavior oriented parallelization
  • Tue Feb 3: lecture, X10
  • Thu Feb 5: lecture, may-happen-in-parallel analysis of X10 programs
  • Tue Feb 10: lecture, sketching stencils
  • Thu Feb 12: lecture, StreamIt
  • Tue Feb 17: language presentation, Titanium
  • Thu Feb 19: language presentation, ZPL
  • Tue Feb 24: language presentation, Chapel
  • Thu Feb 26: language presentation, Rapidmind
  • Tue Mar 3: language presentation, Cuda
  • Thu Mar 5: language presentation, Brook
  • Tue Mar 10: language presentation, Fortress
  • Thu Mar 12: demo day