Performance Engineering of Software Systems | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | MIT OpenCourseWare

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

Exam Solutions

Exams

Lecture Notes

Lecture Videos

Programming Assignments

Projects

Download Course

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

Lecture 11: Storage Allocation

Lecture 12: Parallel Storage Allocation

Lecture 13: The Cilk Runtime System

Lecture 14: Caching and Cache-Efficient Algorithms

Lecture 15: Cache-Oblivious Algorithms

Lecture 16: Nondeterministic Parallel Programming

Lecture 17: Synchronization Without Locks

Lecture 18: Domain Specific Languages and Autotuning

Lecture 19: Leiserchess Codewalk

Lecture 20: Speculative Parallelism & Leiserchess

Lecture 21: Tuning a TSP Algorithm

Lecture 22: Graph Optimization

Lecture 23: High Performance in Dynamic Languages

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

Exam Solutions

Exams

Lecture Notes

Lecture Videos

Programming Assignments

Projects

Download Course

MIT Open Learning

Over 2,500 courses & materials

Freely sharing knowledge with learners and educators around the world. Learn more

© 2001–2026 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Accessibility

Creative Commons License

Terms and Conditions

Proud member of:

© 2001–2026 Massachusetts Institute of Technology