6.172 is an 18-unit class that provides a hands-on, project-based introduction to building scalable and high-performance software systems.
FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos
638 years, 9 months
Units & Quizzes
23
Unlimited Lifetime access
Access on mobile app
Certificate of Completion
Topics include performance analysis, algorithmic techniques for high performance, instruction-level optimizations, caching optimizations, parallel programming, and building scalable systems. The course programming language is C
Course Currilcum
- Introduction and Matrix Multiplication Unlimited
- Bentley Rules for Optimizing Work Unlimited
- Bit Hacks Unlimited
- Assembly Language & Computer Architecture Unlimited
- C to Assembly Unlimited
- Multicore Programming Unlimited
- Races and Parallelism Unlimited
- Analysis of Multithreaded Algorithms Unlimited
- What Compilers Can and Cannot Do Unlimited
- Measurement and Timing Unlimited
- Storage Allocation Unlimited
- Parallel Storage Allocation Unlimited
- The Cilk Runtime System Unlimited
- Caching and Cache-Efficient Algorithms Unlimited
- Cache-Oblivious Algorithms Unlimited
- Nondeterministic Parallel Programming Unlimited
- Synchronization Without Locks Unlimited
- Domain Specific Languages and Autotuning Unlimited
- Leiserchess Codewalk Unlimited
- Speculative Parallelism & Leiserchess Unlimited
- Tuning a TSP Algorithm Unlimited
- Graph Optimization Unlimited
- High Performance in Dynamic Languages Unlimited
