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This repository will be used as the website for Parallelism and Concurrency CS-206. It will be updated weekly throughout the semester. This README contains general information about the class.

  • previous-exams contains PDFs for the previous exams.
  • exercises contains markdown documents for exercises and solutions.
  • slides contains the slides presented in class.
  • labs contains markdown documents for the labs.

We will use GitLab's issue tracker as a discussion forum. Feel free to open an issue if you have any comments or questions.

First-week tasks

  1. Join the Discord
  2. Log into gitlab: https://gitlab.epfl.ch/users/sign_in
  3. Please fill in this table with your GASPAR and SCIPER number
    • Choose the group for the exercises
    • This will initialize your GitLab repository for the course
  4. Follow the Tools Setup page.
  5. Do the example lab.
  6. Watch all videos under Parallelism 1: Introduction to Parallel Programming below
  7. Do the first graded lab.

Grading

The grading of the course is divided between exercies (5%), labs (25%), midterm exam (30%) and final exam (40%).

Staff

Role People
Professors Martin Odersky, Viktor Kunčak
TAs Aleksander Boruch-Gruszecki, Dragana Milovancevic, Guillaume Martres, Nicolas Stucki, Olivier Blanvillain
Student TAs Antoine Masanet, Lucas Giordano, Kajetan Pyszkowski, Marco Vögeli, Quentin Guignard, Sara Djambazovska

Course Schedule

Lectures are partially live (on Zoom) and partially prerecorded (on YouTube). Live sessions will be held on Wednesdays from 14:15 to 16:00. Weekly Discord sessions will be held on Wednesdays from 14:15 to 16:00 for exercises (if it is a week with exercises) and 16:15 to 18:00 for labs. You should watch the prerecorded lectures before doing the exercies. In the first week of the semester, there will be a live Zoom session on Wednesday at 14:15 to welcome you to the class and answer questions you might have, followed by a Discord session.

Week Date Topic Lectures (14:15-16:00) Exercises (14:15-16:00) Labs (16:15-18:00)
1 24.02.21 Parallelism 1 Prerecorded Welcome Zoom session Lab 1
2 03.03.21 Parallelism 2 Prerecorded Exercise 1 Lab 1 & 2
3 10.03.21 Parallelism 3 Prerecorded Exercise 2 Lab 2 & 3
4 17.03.21 Parallelism 4 Prerecorded Exercise 3 Lab 3 & 4
5 24.03.21 Concurrency 1 Live Lab 4 & 5
6 31.03.21 Concurrency 2 Live Lab 5 & 6
7 07.04.21 Easter
8 14.04.21 Midterm Exam
9 21.04.21 Concurrency 3 Live Lab 6
10 28.04.21 Actors 1 Prerecorded Exercise 4 Lab 7
11 05.05.21 Actors 2 Prerecorded Exercise 5 Lab 7
12 12.05.21 Spark 1 Prerecorded Exercise 6 Lab 8
13 19.05.21 Spark 2 Prerecorded Exercise 7 Lab 8 & 9
14 26.05.21 Spark 3 Prerecorded Exercise 8 Lab 9
15 02.06.21 Review for Final Exam

Solutions to the exercises are released after each deadline. We do not provide solutions for the labs.

Before each Discord session, students should watch videos corresponding to that week's topic:

Intro

Parallelism 1: Introduction to Parallel Programming

Parallelism 2: Basic Task Parallel Algorithms