| Date | Topics | Reading | Due dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 23 (W) | About the course (Notes) | ||
| August 28 (M) | Overview of hardware, programming models (Notes) | 1 (skim), 2.1 through 2.7 | |
| August 30 (W) | Overview continued; multithreaded programming and OpenMP (Notes) | Updated Appendix A (handout) | |
| September 4 (M) | Holiday | ||
| September 6 (W) | Multithreaded programming and OpenMP, continued (Notes) | ||
| September 11 (M) | Message passing and MPI (Notes) | Updated Appendix B (handout) | |
| September 13 (W) | Introduction to Java (Notes) | Homework 1 (OpenMP program): HTML, PDF | |
| September 18 (M) | Multithreaded programming and Java (Notes) | Updated Appendix C (handout); my notes on Java from the command line; Dr. Lewis's video lectures on Java for Scala programmers | Homework 1 (MPI program): HTML, PDF |
| September 20 (W) | A little more about Java; Homework~1 revisited (Notes) | ||
| September 25 (M) | A little about gnuplot; a little about OpenCL (Notes) | Appendix D (handout) | |
| September 27 (W) | More about OpenCL (Notes) | Nothing to turn in, but try to have the RNG code for Homework 2 (link below) | |
| October 2 (M) | More about OpenCL (Notes) | Nothing to turn in, but try to have the OpenMP and MPI parallel programs done for Homework 2 (link below) | |
| October 4 (W) | Design patterns; overview of pattern language (Notes) | Nothing to turn in, but try to also have the Java parallel program done for Homework 2 (link below) | |
| October 9 (M) | Example applications; Finding Concurrency patterns (Notes) | 4.3, 3.1 through 3.8 | Nothing to turn in, but try to finish everything but the OpenCL part of Homework 2 (link below) |
| October 11 (W) | Numerical integration revisited; Finding Concurrency patterns, continued (Notes) | ||
| October 16 (M) | Finding Concurrency patterns, continued (Notes) | Official due date for all parts of Homework 2: HTML, PDF | |
| October 18 (W) | Algorithm Structure patterns (Notes) | 4 | |
| October 23 (M) | Supporting Structures patterns (Notes) | 5 | |
| October 25 (W) | Example programs (Notes) | ||
| October 30 (M) | More examples; a little more about MPI (Notes) | ||
| November 1 (W) | More examples (Notes) | ||
| November 6 (M) | More examples (Notes) | ||
| November 8 (W) | More examples (Notes) | Homework 3: HTML, PDF & | |
| November 13 (M) | More examples (Notes) | ||
| November 15 (W) | Implementation Mechanisms (Notes) | 6 | |
| November 20 (M) | More examples (Notes) | Homework 4: HTML, PDF | |
| November 22 (W) | Holiday | ||
| November 27 (M) | Java networking and RMI (Notes) | ||
| November 29 (W) | POSIX threads; threads in C++11 (Notes) | ||
| December 4 (M) | Course wrap-up and evaluations (Notes) | ||
| December 14 (Th) | (Not a class day) | Project: HTML, PDF |