--D. Thiebaut (talk) 11:15, 9 August 2013 (EDT)

Weekly Schedule

Week	Topics	Reading
Week 1 9/3	Tuesday Syllabus Introduction to final project. Approach Programming Testing ==> paper (see 2011 paper for example). Parallelism: going to the source: Interrupts! 8086 type of interrupts (simplified) What is a process? What is a thread? Multithreaded programming. Thursday Definition of a Process Definition of a Thread Definition of an interrupt
Week 2 9/10	Tuesday Thursday
Week 3 9/17	Tuesday: Guided tour by Maggie Lind at the SCMA. Meeting in entrance of museum. Thursday
Week 4 9/24	Tuesday: Tentative Guest Lecture by Tim Draper Thursday
Week 5 10/1	Tuesday Thursday
Week 6 10/8	Tuesday Thursday
Week 7 10/15	Tuesday: Fall Break Thursday
Week 8 10/22	Tuesday Thursday
Week 9 10/29	Tuesday Thursday
Week 10 11/5	Tuesday: Otelia Cromwell Day Thursday
Week 11 11/12	Tuesday Thursday
Week 12 11/19	Tuesday: Guest Lecture (DT @ INFOCOMP 2013) Thursday: Guest Lecture (DT @ INFOCOMP 2013)
Week 13 11/26	Tuesday Thursday: Thanksgiving Break
Week 14 12/3	Tuesday Thursday
Week 15 12/10	Tuesday: Last Day of Class

Links and Resources

Introduction to Parallel Processing, by Blaise Barney, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. A good read. Covers most of the important topics.
Introduction to MPI, by Blaise Barney, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Another short but excellent coverage of a topic in parallel processing, this time MPI.
A 90-Minute Guide to Modern Microprocessors

Designing and Building Parallel Programs, by Ian Foster. A relatively old reference (1995), with still good information.