Date	Day	Lecture	Topic	Readings	Handouts	Due
Motivation
Jan 19	Wed	1	Introduction		Syllabus
Jan 24	Mon	2	An Inflection Point	Chapter 1, No Free Lunch	Assignment 1
Jan 26	Wed	3	Intro to Pthreads	Chapter 6
Feb 2	Wed	4	Success Story: Exploiting ILP	Chapter 2	Assignment 2	Assignment 1 (2/1)
Feb 4	Fri		Snow Day
Foundations
Feb 7	Mon	5	Parallel Architectures	Chapter 7: pp. 202-229
Feb 9	Wed	6	Sources of Performance Loss	Chapter 3	Assignment 3	Assignment 2 (2/8)
Feb 14	Mon	7	Scalable Performance			Project pre-proposal
Feb 16	Wed	8	Programming Tips	Chapter 5: pp. 125-141
Feb 21	Mon	9	Off Day
Feb 23	Wed	9	Speculation and Predication	Chapter 4	Assignment 4
Feb 28	Mon	10	Assignment 3 Discussion
Mar 2	Wed	11	Two Parallel Algorithms
Mar 7	Mon	12	Limitations of the PRAM		Assignment 5	Assignment 4 (3/6)
Mar 9	Wed	13	Granularity
Mar 14	Mon		Spring Break
Mar 16	Wed		Spring Break
Languages and Models
Mar 21	Mon	14	Scalable Memory Allocation
Mar 23	Wed	15	HPF			Assignment 5 (3/25)
Mar 28	Mon	16	GPUs	Chapter 10: pp. 284-289
Mar 30	Wed	17	Trends in Parallel Architectures	Vishkin paper
Apr 4	Mon	18	Barnes-Hut on GPUs	GPU vs. CPU paper
Apr 6	Wed	19	XMT, GPUs, and Assignment 5
Apr 11	Mon		Midterm Exam
Hot Topics
Apr 13	Wed	20	ZPL	Chapter 8: pp. 236-255	Default Project
Apr 18	Mon	21	Using ZPL		Problem Space Promotion Paper
Apr 20	Wed	22	Ironman
Apr 25	Mon	23	Ironman Chapel	Chapel paper	Assignment 6
Apr 27	Wed	24	Transactional Memory	Chapter 10: pp. 290-304
May 2	Mon	25	Galois, MapReduce		Galois paper	Assignment 6 (5/1)
May 4	Wed	26	Wrap-up