6.172 | Fall 2018 | Undergraduate

Performance Engineering of Software Systems

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Lecture 13: The Cilk Runtime System

Description: This class is focused on the Cilk runtime system. It stresses the work-first principle: optimize for ordinary serial execution at the expense of additional computation in steals. There is an emphasis on performance models and parallel runtime systems.

Instructor: Tao B. Schardl

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