Introduction to Parallel Programming

Steven Brawer

• Chapters 1 and 2 (Read on your own)

• Chapter 3 Hardware and Operating Systems Models

• Chapter 4 Processes, Shared Memory, and Simple Parallel Programs

• Chapter 5 Basic Parallel Programming Techniques

• Chapter 6 Barriers and Race Conditions

• Chapter 7 Introduction to Scheduling: Nested Loops

• Chapter 8 Overcoming Data Dependencies

• Chapter 9 Scheduling Summary

• Chapter 10 Linear Recurrence Relations -- Backwards Dependencies

• Chapter 11 Performance Tuning 20 pages