| Date | Topics | Reading | Due dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 15 (Th) | No class | ||
| January 20 (T) | About the course (Notes) | ||
| January 22 (Th) | Overview of hardware, programming models (Notes) | 1 (skim), 2.1 through 2.7 | |
| January 27 (T) | Multithreaded programming and OpenMP (Notes) | A.1 through A.8 | |
| January 29 (Th) | OpenMP, continued; message passing and MPI (Notes) | k/TD>B.1 through B.7 | |
| February 3 (T) | Message passing and MPI, continued (Notes) | Homework 1 (OpenMP program) | |
| February 5 (Th) | Multithreaded programming and Java (Notes) | C.1 through C.7 | Homework 1 (MPI program) |
| February 10 (T) | No class | ||
| February 12 (Th) | No class | ||
| February 17 (T) | More about MPI and multithreaded programming in Java (Notes) | Homework 1 (Java program) | |
| February 19 (Th) | Homework 1 revisited (Notes) | ||
| February 24 (T) | Design patterns; overview of pattern language; example applications (Notes) | 4.3 | |
| February 26 (Th) | Finding Concurrency patterns (Notes) | 3.1 through 3.8 | Homework 2 |
| March 3 (T) | Algorithm Structure patterns (Notes) | 4.1 through 4.4 | |
| March 5 (Th) | No class | ||
| March 10 (T) | Spring break | ||
| March 12 (Th) | Spring break | ||
| March 17 (T) | Algorithm Structure patterns, continued (Notes) | 4.5 through 4.9 | |
| March 19 (Th) | No class | ||
| March 24 (T) | Supporting Structures patterns (Notes) | 5.1 through 5.7 | |
| March 26 (Th) | Supporting Structures patterns, continued (Notes) | 5.8 through 5.11 | |
| March 31 (T) | More about Homework 3 (Notes) | ||
| April 2 (Th) | Implementation Mechanisms (Notes) | 6 | |
| April 7 (T) | No class | ||
| April 9 (Th) | No class | ||
| April 14 (T) | Example application(s) (Notes) | ||
| April 16 (Th) | More example application(s) (Notes) | ||
| April 21 (T) | More example application(s) (Notes) | Homework 3 | |
| April 23 (Th) | Multithreaded programming with POSIX threads (Notes) | Homework 4 | |
| April 28 (T) | Distributed-memory programming in Java (Notes) | ||
| April 30 (Th) | Course wrap-up and evaluations (Notes) | Project proposal | |
| May 12 (T), 5pm | Project report and code |