Multithreaded Parallelism: Languages and Compilers
As taught in: Fall 2002
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Instructors:
Prof. Arvind
MIT Course Number:
6.827
Level:
Graduate
Course Features
Course Description
The topics covered in this course include:
- Languages and compilers to exploit multithreaded parallelism
- Implicit parallel programming using functional languages and their extensions
- Higher-order functions, non-strictness, and polymorphism
- Explicit parallel programming and nondeterminism
- The lambda calculus and its variants
- Term rewriting and operational semantics
- Compiling multithreaded code for symmetric multiprocessors and clusters
- Static analysis and compiler optimizations
This course is worth 4 Engineering Design Points.
