This course will introduce you to the multiple forms of parallelism found in modern Intel architecture processors and teach you the programming frameworks for handling this parallelism in applications. You will get access to a cluster of modern manycore processors (Intel Xeon Phi architecture) for experiments with graded programming exercises.
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Fundamentals of Parallelism on Intel Architecture
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Approx. 15 hours to complete
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Distributed ComputingComputer ArchitectureOpenmpParallel Computing
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
3 hours to complete
Modern Code
In the Introduction we will learn...
3 hours to complete
7 videos (Total 41 min), 1 reading, 3 quizzes
7 videos
1.1 Why this course?5m
1.2 How Computers Get Faster6m
1.3 Intel Architecture6m
1.4 Modern Code5m
1.5 What You Are Going To Learn1m
1.6 Remote Access11m
1 reading
Modern Code10m
1 practice exercise
Modern code30m
3 hours to complete
Vectorization
3 hours to complete
13 videos (Total 72 min), 3 readings, 2 quizzes
13 videos
2.2 Vectorizing Your Code5m
2.3.1 Automatic Vectorization5m
2.3.2 Will This Vectorize?15m
2.4 Guided Automatic Vectorization4m
2.8.1 Stencil Introduction2m
2.8 Stencil9m
2.5 SIMD-Enabled Functions3m
2.6 Vector Dependence5m
2.7 Strip Mining1m
Numerical Integration Introduction2m
2.9 Integral Vectorization8m
2.10 Learn More1m
3 readings
Vectorization10m
Code Download10m
Code Download10m
1 practice exercise
Vectorization30m
3 hours to complete
Multithreading with OpenMP
3 hours to complete
10 videos (Total 41 min), 3 readings, 2 quizzes
10 videos
Demo: Forks9m
3.2 Creating Threads4m
3.3 Variable Sharing1m
3.4 Parallel Loops5m
3.5 Data Races Mutexes4m
3.7 Parallel Reduction4m
Stencil Introduction2m
Stencil Demonstration3m
Learn More1m
3 readings
Multithreading with OpenMP10m
Code Download10m
Code Download10m
1 practice exercise
OpenMP30m
3 hours to complete
Memory Traffic
3 hours to complete
14 videos (Total 57 min), 3 readings, 2 quizzes
14 videos
4.2 Memory Hierarchy7m
4.3 High Bandwidth Memory3m
4.4 Memory Allocation1m
Stencil Introduction2m
Demo: Stencil with numactl3m
Demo: Stencil with Memkind3m
4.5 Bypassing Caches2m
Stencil Demonstration-Nontemporal1m
Stencil Demonstration-Char3m
4.6 Locality in Space7m
4.7 Locality in Time8m
Integral Introduction2m
Integral Demonstration28s
3 readings
Memory Traffic10m
Code Download10m
Code Download10m
1 practice exercise
Memory traffic30m
Reviews
TOP REVIEWS FROM FUNDAMENTALS OF PARALLELISM ON INTEL ARCHITECTURE
by PYMay 1, 2020
This coursework helped me to know the working of Intel architecture. How to optimize the code over the existing architecture with the help of vectorization and multithreading.
by VSAug 9, 2020
Good course material and instructor. But discussion forum is awfully quiet. Looks as if no other courses on this specialization are available anymore.
by ALFeb 18, 2018
A very good course with excellent material to enhance your knowledge. The quality of some videos could be improved (sudden changes/gaps).
by BSOct 23, 2019
This was a very good experience and I will get additional marks for this in Computer Architecture Thanks to Coursera
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