General
Coronavirus updates
Due to the coronavirus, the lectures and exercise sessions will be arranged online, and it will be possible to take part in all course activities remotely. We will coordinate all of our course activities on Slack, so please join our Slack and follow it.
Welcome to Programming Parallel Computers
Welcome to Programming Parallel Computers, spring 2020 edition! This is a practical hands-on course on algorithm engineering for modern parallel computers. You will learn how to design programs that make the best possible use of the computing power of multicore CPUs and GPUs.
All practical information on the course is available at http://ppc.cs.aalto.fi/2020/ and the course material is available at http://ppc.cs.aalto.fi/.
Our first lecture is on Tuesday, 14 April, at 10am (note the exceptional schedule due to Easter holidays).
Before the first lecture, please do the following:
- Register for the course in Oodi if you have not done it yet
- Join our Slack chat and follow at least channel #important regularly: http://ppc.cs.aalto.fi/2020/help/
- Solve the prerequisite test: http://ppc.cs.aalto.fi/2020/test/
Please note that you will need to complete the prerequisite test before you can start to solve assignments — the test is now open and it closes on 17 April 2020, at noon 19 April 2020, at noon.