CS 6504: Co-Design for Parallel Computing 
Dr. Wu Feng 
Fall 2013

With processor core counts doubling every 18-24 months and penetrating
all markets from high-end servers in supercomputers to desktops and
laptops down to even mobile phones, we sit at the dawn of a world of
ubiquitous parallelism, one where extracting performance via parallelism
is paramount. The burden falls on developers to exploit parallel hardware
for performance gains. But how do we lower the cost of extracting such
parallelism, particularly in the face of the increasing heterogeneity
of processing cores?  This course seeks to study advanced topics around
these issues and to realize methodologies for the synergistic co-design of
algorithms, software, and hardware in order to deliver better performance
speed-ups while also making it easier for the end user to do so.