| Lecture date | Topics | Reading | Assignments |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 21 (W) | (No class; please review syllabus) | ||
| August 26 (M) | Guest lecture: Dr. Lewis (Notes); (code). | ||
| August 28 (W) | Guest lecture: Dr. Lewis (Notes); (code). | ||
| September 2 (M) | Holiday | ||
| September 4 (W) | Guest lecture: Dr. Lewis (Notes); (code). | ||
| September 9 (M) | More ``about the course''; overview of hardware, programming models (Notes); video lecture (lecture 0909) | 1 (skim), 2.1 through 2.7 | |
| September 11 (W) | Overview continued; multithreaded programming and OpenMP (Notes); video lecture (lecture 0911) | Updated Appendix A (handout) | |
| September 16 (M) | Multithreaded programming and OpenMP, continued (Notes); video lecture (lecture 0916) | ||
| September 18 (W) | Message passing and MPI (Notes); video lecture (lecture 0918) | Updated Appendix B (handout) | |
| September 23 (M) | Multithreaded programming and Java (Notes); video lecture (lecture 0923) | Updated Appendix C (handout); Dr. Lewis's video lectures on Java for Scala programmers | Homework 1: HTML, PDF |
| September 25 (W) | Introduction to OpenCL (Notes); video lecture (lecture 0925) | Appendix D (handout) | |
| September 30 (M) | More about multithreaded programming in Java; more about OpenCL (Notes); video lecture (lecture 0930) | Homework 2: HTML, PDF (accepted without penalty through 10/02) | |
| October 2 (W) | Evaluating parallel applications; numerical integration example revisited (Notes); video lecture (lecture 1002) | ||
| October 7 (M) | Homework 2 revisited (Notes); video lecture (lecture 1007) | ||
| October 9 (W) | Design patterns; overview of pattern language; example applications (Notes); video lecture (lecture 1009) | 1.3, 1.4 (review); 4.3 | |
| October 14 (M) | No class | Nothing to turn in; suggest completing RNG and sequential code for Homework 3 (HTML, PDF) | |
| October 16 (W) | No class | Nothing to turn in; suggest completing OpenMP, MPI programs for for Homework 3 (HTML, PDF) | |
| October 21 (M) | Finding Concurrency patterns (Notes) | 3 | Nothing to turn in; suggest completing parallel Java program for Homework 3 (HTML, PDF) |
| October 23 (W) | Algorithm Structure patterns (Notes) | 4 | Nothing to turn in; suggest completing OpenCL program for Homework 3 (HTML, PDF) |
| October 28 (M) | Supporting Structures patterns (Notes) | 5 | |
| October 30 (W) | Supporting Structures patterns, continued (Notes) | Homework 3: HTML, PDF | |
| November 4 (M) | More examples: generic master-worker; Mandelbrot set (Notes) | ||
| November 6 (W) | More examples: Mandelbrot set, continued; matrix multiplication (Notes) | ||
| November 11 (M) | (No class) | ||
| November 13 (W) | More examples: matrix multiplication, continued (Notes) | Homework 4: HTML, PDF | |
| November 18 (M) | More examples (mergesort); Implementation Mechanisms (Notes) | 6 | |
| November 20 (W) | Distributed-memory programming in Java (Notes) | ||
| November 25 (M) | Distributed-memory programming in Java, continued (Notes) | ||
| November 27 (W) | Holiday | ||
| December 2 (M) | A little about multithreading with POSIX threads and C++ threads; course wrap-up and evaluations | Homework 5: HTML, PDF | |
| December 11 (W), noon | (Not a class day) | Optional project: HTML, PDF; not-accepted-past deadline for all work |