| Date | Topics | Reading | Due dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 17 (Th) | About the course (Notes) | ||
| January 22 (T) | No class | ||
| January 24 (Th) | No class | ||
| January 29 (T) | Overview of hardware, programming models (Notes) | 1 (skim), 2.1 through 2.7 | |
| January 31 (Th) | Multithreaded programming and OpenMP (Notes) | A.1 through A.8 | |
| February 5 (T) | OpenMP continued; message passing and MPI (Notes) | B.1 through B.7 | |
| February 7 (Th) | MPI continued; multithreaded programming and Java (Notes) | C.1 through C.7 | Homework 1 (OpenMP program) |
| February 12 (T) | Multithreaded programming and Java, continued (Notes) | Homework 1 (MPI program) | |
| February 14 (Th) | A little more about MPI and multithreading in Java (Notes) | Homework 1 (Java program) | |
| February 19 (T) | No class | ||
| February 21 (Th) | No class | ||
| February 26 (T) | Homework 1 revisited (Notes) | ||
| February 28 (Th) | Design patterns; overview of pattern language; example applications (Notes) | 4.3 | |
| March 4 (T) | Finding Concurrency patterns (Notes) | 3.1 through 3.8 | Homework 2 |
| March 6 (Th) | Finding Concurrency patterns, continued; Algorithm Structure patterns (Notes) | 4.1 through 4.4, 4.6 | |
| March 11 (T) | Algorithm Structure patterns, continued (Notes) | 4.5 through 4.9 | |
| March 13 (Th) | Supporting Structures patterns (Notes) | 5.1 through 5.7 | |
| March 18 (T) | No class (holiday) | ||
| March 20 (Th) | No class (holiday) | ||
| March 25 (T) | Supporting Structures patterns, continued (Notes) | 5.8 through 5.11 | |
| March 27 (Th) | Supporting Structures patterns, continued (Notes) | ||
| April 1 (T) | No class | ||
| April 3 (Th) | No class | ||
| April 8 (T) | More about Homework 3 (Notes) | Homework 3 | |
| April 10 (Th) | Implementation Mechanisms (Notes) | 6 | |
| April 15 (T) | No class | Homework 4 | |
| April 17 (Th) | Example application(s) (Notes) | Project proposal | |
| April 22 (T) | More example application(s) (Notes) | ||
| April 24 (Th) | More example application(s) (Notes) | ||
| April 29 (T) | POSIX threads; distributed programming in Java (Notes) | ||
| May 1 (Th) | Course wrap-up and evaluations (Notes) | ||
| May 6 (Th), 6:30pm | Project presentations | Project presentation, report, and code |