Week	Date	Topic (Tentative)	Slides	Comments/Handouts
1	T: 1/11	Introduction to Parallel Computing	Lecture 1
	H: 1/13	Guest Lecture on the State of Modern HPC - Professor Martin Berzins	Lecture 2	Read Chapter 1: Sections 1.1-1.3 Read DARPA HW and SW Reports
2	T: 1/18	Discuss DARPA HW and SW Reports	Sterling Exascale Slides Yelick Exascale Slides Simon Exascale Slides	Read Flynn Paper Read van der Steen's Overview on Recent Supercomputers
	H: 1/21	Parallel Computers	Book Slides Chapter 1 Flynn Paper Discussion	Read Berkeley's Landscape Paper Read Chapter 2
3	T: 1/25	Message-Passing Computing	Book Slides Chapter 2
	H: 1/27	Review of MPI	Slides	Sample MPI Programs
4	T: 2/1	Continuation of Discussion of MPI	See Slides Used on 1/25 and 1/27	Project 1 Handout Project 1 Serial Code (.h and .cpp) Read Duncan, Berman and Snyder Papers
	H: 2/3	Paper Discussions	Duncan Paper Discussion Berman Paper Discussion Snyder Paper Discussion	Read Chapter 3
5	T: 2/8	Embarrassingly Parallel Computations	Book Slides Chapter 3	Read Lamport Paper
	H: 2/10	Guest Lecture on Debugging/Verifying MPI Programs - Mr. Anh Vo (PhD Student of Mine and Prof. Ganesh Gopalakrishnan)	Slides	Read Chapter 4
6	T: 2/15	Partitioning and Divide-and-Conquer Strategies	Book Slides Chapter 4	Read Gustafson's "Reevaluating" Paper and Karp-Flatt Paper
	H: 2/17	Performance Analysis (Amdahl's Law, Gustafson's Law and the Karp-Flatt Metric)	Slides	Read Culler and Eager Papers
7	T: 2/22	Paper Discussions	Culler Paper Discussion Eager Paper Discussion	Read Chapter 5
	H: 2/24	Pipelined Computations	Book Slides Chapter 5	Project 1 Due Project 2 Handout Read Chapter 8
8	T: 3/1	Programming with Shared Memory	Book Slides Chapter 8
	H: 3/3	Introduction to OpenMP	Slides
9	T: 3/8	Optimizing OpenMP Programming	Ruud van der Pas Slides	Ruud van der Pas' Blog (with OpenMP comments)
	H: 3/10	Midterm		Read Chapter 9
9	T: 3/15	Distributed Shared Memory Systems and Programming	Book Slides Chapter 9	Read Chapter 6
	H: 3/17	Synchronous Computations	Book Slides Chapter 6	Read Chapter 7
10	T: 3/22	Spring Break
	H: 3/24	Spring Break
11	T: 3/29	Load Balancing and Terminiation Detection	Book Slides Chapter 7	Read Karp and Hill Papers
	H: 3/31	Paper Discussions	Karp Paper Discussion Hill Paper Discussion	Project 2 Due Final Project Handout
12	T: 4/5	Sorting Algorithms	Book Slides Chapter 10	Read Kumar and Lastevetsky Papers Hybrid Programming Example
	H: 4/7	Paper Discussions	Kumar Paper Discussion Lastevetsky Paper Discussion	Read Chapter 11
13	T: 4/12	Numerical Algorithms	Book Slides Chapter 11	Read Orii and Worlton Papers
	H: 4/14	Paper Discussions	Orii Paper Discussion Worlton Paper Discussion	Read Chapter 12
14	T: 4/19	Image Processing	Book Slides Chapter 12	Read Woo and Williams Papers
	H: 4/21	Paper Discussions	Woo Paper Discussion Williams Paper Discussion
15	T: 4/26	Final Exam Discussion
	H: 4/28	Reading Day - No Class		Final Project Due (submitted to my office by 12:00pm noon in paper form)
	F: 4/29	Final Exam		10:30am - 12:30pm (Room WEB 2250)