=====Journal of Lessons, SPD year 2012-2013====
====Journal====

  * 24/09/2012 ** Introduction to the course** --- ** MPI lesson 1, part A ** 
  * 27/09/2012 ** MPI lesson 1, part B ** --- Basic concepts.
  * 1/10/2012 ** MPI lesson 2 ** --- Datatypes
  * <del>4/10/2012</del> //lesson moved to Friday 5/10//
  * 5/10/2012 ** MPI lesson 2 part B** --- Communication Modes, Non-blocking point-to-point.
  * 9/10/2012 ** MPI lab (1) ** --- see exercise slides.
  * 12/10/2012 ** MPI lesson 3 ** --- Communicators and groups. Collective Communications, part 1.
  * <del>16/10/2012</del> //lesson moved to Monday 12/11// -- rescheduled due to work constraints
  * 19/10/2012 ** MPI Lesson 4 and 5 ** --- Collective Communications, part 2.
  * <del>23/10/2012</del> //lesson moved to Monday 03/12// -- rescheduled due to work constraints
  * <del>26/10/2012</del> //lesson moved to Monday 26/11// -- rescheduled due to work constraints 
  * 30/10/2012 // to be updated //
  * 02/11/2012 ** Parallel K-means ** // to be updated //
  * 09/11/2012 ** Introduction to the Thread Building Blocks Library **
  * 12/11/2012 Additional Lesson, N1 Room 16-18
  * <del>13/11/2012</del> //lesson moved to Monday 10/12// -- rescheduled due to work constraints
  * 16/11/2012 ** Parallel K-Means, introduction to General purpose GPU programming (GPGPU) ** 
  * <del>19/11/2012 Additional Lesson, N1 Room 16-18</del> Lesson canceled, see NEWS.
  * 20/11/2012 ** MPI lab (2) **
  * 23/11/2012 The Assist Structured Parallel Programming Environment
  * 26/11/2012 Additional Lesson, N1 Room 16-18 -- Porting FastFlow on the Tilera multicore
  * <del>27/11/2012</del> //lesson moved to Monday 17/12// -- rescheduled due to work constraints
  * <del>30/11/2012</del> //lesson moved to Monday 17/12// -- rescheduled due to work constraints
  * 3/12/2012 Additional lesson ** Room H 16-18 ** The lab was reserved from 14-18 though. MPI lab time.
  * <del>04/12/2012</del> Canceled for illness
  * 07/12/2012 Discussion on project assignment
  * 10/12/2012 Additional lesson -- TBB part2 
  * 11/12/2012 TBB Lab Time
  * <del>14/12/2012</del> Canceled
  * 17/12/2012 Additional Lesson, TBB Lab time. ** Lab Room I, time slot 15-18 **
  * <del>18/12/2012</del> Canceled


====Slides, Notes and References to papers====


^ Date ^ Slides ^ Notes ^ Other information |
| 24/9/12\\ 27/9/12 |  {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:spd-12-13-intro.pdf|Course Intro}} \\ {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:spd11-12-mpi-lesson1.pdf|MPI part 1}}  |         |Relevant Material from MPI standard:\\ Chapter 1: have a look at it;\\ Chapter 2: sec. 2.3, 2.4, 2.5.1, 2.5.4, 2.5.6, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.7, 2.8;\\ Chapter 3: sec. 3.1, 3.2.3, 3.4; 3.5, (skim through 3.7).\\ The introduction slides are new, the MPI slides are from last year |
| 27/9/12\\ 01/10/12 |  {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:spd11-12-mpi-lesson2.pdf|MPI part 2}}  | | Chapter 3: sec. 3.2, 3.3; Chapter 4: all paragraphs related to mentioned datatypes  |
| 05/10/12 |  {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:spd11-12-mpi-lesson3.pdf|MPI part 3}}  | | Chapter 3: sec. 3.5, 3.6 (3.6.1 can be skipped), \\ 3.7, 3.11 (persistent comm.s and sendRecv are 3.9, 3.10) \\ Chapter 4: sec. 4.1 – to 4.1.2, (skip 4.1.3, 4.1.4), 4.1.9 – 4.1.11 |
|  9/10/12 | {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:spd-12-13-mpi-lab.pdf|MPI hands on}} | | MPI lab hands-on, Exercises 1 and 2 |
|  12/10/12 |  {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:spd-12-13-mpi-lesson4.pdf|MPI part 4}}\\ {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:spd-12-13-mpi-lesson5-v1.pdf|MPI part 5}}  | | Groups and Communicators: Chapter 6 up to 6.5 (skip intercommunicators) \\ Collective Communications (part 1) Chapter 5 (beginning) |
|  19/10/12 | | | |
|  30/10/12 | //TBA// | |  |
|  02/11/12 | //TBA// | {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:spd11-12-k-means-code.tgz|K-means sequential code}} | See the Dhillon/Modha paper on the main page. |
|  9/11/12 | {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:spd-12-13-tbb.pdf|TBB intro}}| | |
|  12/11/12 | | | |
|  16/11/12 | {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:spd-12-13-gpgpu_intro.pdf|GPGPU introduction}} | | |
|  20/11/12 | | | |
|  23/11/12 | {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:spd-12-13-assist.pdf|Slides on ASSIST}}| | The slides cover more than the lesson, including topics which part of the SPM course, and are reported here for the sake of completeness |
|  26/11/12 | | | |
|  03/12/12 | | | |
|  10/12/12 | {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:spd-12-13-tbb-lesson2_v1.pdf|TBB Lesson 2}} | | |
|  11/12/12 | {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:spd-12-13-tbb-lab1.pdf| TBB Lab part 1}} | | |