| Date | Topics | Reading | Due dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 13 (Th) | No class | ||
| January 18 (T) | About the course (Notes) | ||
| January 20 (Th) | Overview of hardware, programming models (Notes) | 1 (skim), 2.1 through 2.7 | |
| January 25 (T) | Overview continued; multithreaded programming and OpenMP (Notes) | A.1 through A.8 | |
| January 27 (Th) | Multithreaded programming and OpenMP, continued (Notes) | ||
| February 1 (T) | No class | ||
| February 3 (Th) | No class | ||
| February 8 (T) | Message passing and MPI (Notes) | B.1 through B.7 | |
| February 10 (Th) | Multithreaded programming and Java (Notes) | C.1 through C.7 | Homework 1 (OpenMP program) |
| February 15 (T) | More about MPI and multithreaded programming in Java (Notes) | Homework 1 (MPI program) | |
| February 17 (Th) | Design patterns; overview of pattern language; example applications (Notes) | 4.3 | Homework 1 (Java program) |
| February 22 (T) | No class | ||
| February 24 (Th) | Homework 1 revisited (Notes) | ||
| March 1 (T) | No class | ||
| March 3 (Th) | Finding Concurrency patterns (Notes) | 3.1 through 3.8 | |
| March 8 (T) | Algorithm Structure patterns (Notes) | 4.1 through 4.9 | Homework 2 |
| March 10 (Th) | No class | ||
| March 15 (T) | Spring break | ||
| March 17 (Th) | Spring break | ||
| March 22 (T) | Supporting Structures patterns (Notes) | 5 | |
| March 24 (Th) | Supporting Structures patterns, continued (Notes) | ||
| March 29 (T) | Supporting Structures patterns, continued; example application(s) (Notes) | ||
| March 31 (Th) | No class | ||
| April 5 (T) | Example application(s), continued (Notes) | Homework 3 | |
| April 7 (Th) | Example application(s), continued (Notes) | ||
| April 12 (T) | No class | ||
| April 14 (Th) | Implementation Mechanisms (Notes) | 6 | Homework 4 |
| April 19 (T) | (Notes) | Multithreaded programming with POSIX threads; distributed-memory programming in Java||
| April 21 (Th) | Distributed-memory programming in Java, continued (Notes) | ||
| April 26 (T) | Matrix multiplication revisited (Notes) | Project proposal | |
| April 28 (Th) | A little about GPGPU programming with OpenCL; course wrap-up and evaluations (Notes) | ||
| May 4 (W), 8:30am | Project presentations | Project presentation, report, and code |