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Course Info

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Departments

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

As Taught In

Fall 2018

Level

Undergraduate

Topics

Engineering
- Computer Science
  - Algorithms and Data Structures
  - Software Design and Engineering
- Systems Engineering
  - Systems Optimization

Learning Resource Types

Lecture Videos

Programming Assignments

Projects

Lecture Notes

Exams with Solutions

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Lecture Videos

Lecture 1: Introduction and Matrix Multiplication

Lecture 2: Bentley Rules for Optimizing Work

Lecture 3: Bit Hacks

Lecture 4: Assembly Language & Computer Architecture

Lecture 5: C to Assembly

Lecture 6: Multicore Programming

Lecture 7: Races and Parallelism

Lecture 8: Analysis of Multithreaded Algorithms

Lecture 9: What Compilers Can and Cannot Do

Lecture 10: Measurement and Timing

Assignments

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Services, Homework 8: Cache-Oblivious Algorithms

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Homework 1: Getting Started

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Homework 10: Data Synchronization

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Homework 2: Profiling Serial Merge Sort

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Homework 3: Vectorization

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Homework 4: Reducer Hyperobjects

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Homework 5: Theory of Performance Engineering

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Homework 6: Custom Memory Allocators

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Homework 7: Dynamic-Analysis Tools

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Homework 9: Deterministic Execution

Exams

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Practice Quiz 1

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Practice Quiz 1 Solutions

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Practice Quiz 2

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Practice Quiz 2 Solutions

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Practice Quiz 3

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Practice Quiz 4

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Practice Quiz 4 Solutions

Lecture Notes

6.172 Performance Engineering in Software Systems, Lecture 21: Tuning a TSP Algorithm

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Lecture 1: Introduction and Matrix Multiplication

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Lecture 10: Measurement and Timing

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Lecture 11: Storage Allocation

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Lecture 12: Parallel Storage Allocation

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Lecture 13: The Cilk Runtime System

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Lecture 14: Caching and Cache-Efficient Algorithms

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Lecture 15: Cache-Oblivious Algorithms

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Lecture 16: Nondeterministic Parallel Programming

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Lecture 17: Synchronization Without Locks

Projects

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Leiserchess

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Project 1: Bit Hacks

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Project 2: Collision Detection

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Project 3: Serial Dynamic Memory Allocation

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Project 4: Leiserchess

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MIT6_172F18-project3.zip

MIT6_172F18-project4.zip

Course Info

Instructors

Departments

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

As Taught In

Fall 2018

Level

Undergraduate

Topics

Engineering
- Computer Science
  - Algorithms and Data Structures
  - Software Design and Engineering
- Systems Engineering
  - Systems Optimization

Learning Resource Types

Lecture Videos

Programming Assignments

Projects

Lecture Notes

Exams with Solutions

Download Course

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