Date	Day	Lecture	Topic	Readings	Handouts	Due
Motivation
Jan 14	Mon	1	Introduction		Syllabus
Jan 16	Wed	2	An Inflection Point	Chapter 1, No Free Lunch	Assignment 1
Jan 21	Mon		MLK Day
Jan 23	Wed	3	Intro to Pthreads	Chapter 6 (pp. 143-187)	Assignment 2	Assignment 1
Jan 28	Mon	4	More Pthreads, MPI	Chapter 2
Jan 30	Wed	5	Success Stories			Assignment 2
Foundations
Feb 4	Mon	6	Sources of Performance Loss	Chapter 3	Assignment 3
Feb 6	Wed	7	Programming Tips	Chapter 11
Feb 11	Mon	8	Scalable Performance	pp. 84-96, Chapter 5
Feb 13	Wed	9	Division of Labor
Feb 18	Mon	10	Speculation and Predication			Assignment 3 (now due 2/22)
Feb 20	Wed	11	Two Parallel Algorithms	#8: pp. 96-110, Chapter 4	Assignment 4
Feb 25	Mon	12	Limitations of the PRAM	#9 Anderson and Snyder
Feb 27	Wed	13	Scalable Memory Allocation
Mar 4	Mon	14	HPF			Assignment 4
Mar 6	Wed		No class: Gates Building Dedication		Assignment 5	Work Queue homework (response #10)
Mar 11	Mon		Spring Break
Mar 16	Wed		Spring Break
Languages and Models
Mar 18	Mon	15	Introduction to ZPL
Mar 20	Wed	16	Using ZPL	#11 Chapter 8, pp. 245-267
Mar 25	Mon	17	ZPL's Performance Model	#12 Problem Space Promotion
Mar 27	Wed	18	Performance Portability			Assignment 5 (due 3/29)
Apr 1	Mon	19	Chapel	#13 Chapel and Chapter 9	Assignment 6
Apr 3	Wed	20	Transactional Memory
Apr 8	Mon	21	Galois	#14 Galois paper		Assignment 6
Hot Topics
Apr 10	Wed	22	Galois/Barnes-Hut		Assignment 7
Apr 15	Mon	23	Barnes-Hut
Apr 17	Wed	24	GPUs
Apr 22	Mon	25	Barnes-Hut on GPUs
Apr 24	Wed	26	Race Detection	#15 Maple Race Detection		Assignment 7 (now due 5/8)
Apr 29	Mon	27	"Midterm" Exam
May 1	Wed	28