ECE498SL Spring 2009

Handouts and Notes:

• Course Overview
• Note #1: Linkage with Other Languages
• Note #2: A Commercial Bug Case Study
• Anatomy of a Bug (John Kelm on RigelSim)
• 391 Student Notes (the entire package, including new material that may not have been included in the class' web page yet; review, including C, is Set #0)
• Chapter 3 of my Ph.D. thesis (describes a lock-free multi-producer, single-consumer queue)
• Note #3: A Case Study in Approximation (from Lab #2) (a couple of (uncommented) programs)
• Note #4: Synchronization Concepts
• Case Study: Rigel Task Model Livelock

Assignments:

• Homework #1 -- due in class on Tuesday 3 February
• Lab #1 -- due on Thursday 26 February
• Lab #2 -- due on Thursday 19 March (code package)
• Lab #2B -- due on Wednesday 1 April
• Required Reading: Twelve Ways to Fool the Masses, by David Bailey
• Lab #3 -- due on Thursday 7 May (code package; sequential implementation)

Examples:

• Netlink module in C
• NetLink module in C++
• Marbles game (mgame is a Tcl/Tk script)
• C++ template binding example

Lectures:

• Lecture 1 (Tuesday 20 Jan 2009)
• Lecture 2 (Thursday 22 Jan 2009)
• Lecture 3 (Tuesday 27 Jan 2009)
• Lecture 4 (Thursday 29 Jan 2009)
• Lecture 5 (Tuesday 3 Feb 2009)
• Lecture 6 (Thursday 5 Feb 2009)
• Lecture 7 (Tuesday 10 Feb 2009)
• Lecture 8 (Thursday 12 Feb 2009)
• Lecture 9 (Tuesday 17 Feb 2009)
• Lecture 10 (Thursday 19 Feb 2009)
• Lecture 11 (Tuesday 24 Feb 2009)
• Lecture 12 (Thursday 26 Feb 2009)
• Lecture 13 (Tuesday 3 Mar 2009)
• Lecture 14 (Thursday 5 Mar 2009)
• Midterm Exam; No Lecture (Tuesday 10 Mar 2009)
• Lecture 16 (Thursday 12 Mar 2009)
• Lecture 17 (Tuesday 17 Mar 2009)
• Lecture 18 (Thursday 19 Mar 2009)
• Lecture 18 Supplement: Specification for a Task with No Parallelism (Thursday 19 Mar 2009)
• Lecture 19 (Tuesday 31 Mar 2009)
• Lecture 20 (Thursday 2 Apr 2009)
• Lecture 21 (Tuesday 7 Apr 2009)
• Lecture 22 (Thursday 9 Apr 2009)
• Lecture 23 (Tuesday 14 Apr 2009)
• Lecture 24 (Thursday 16 Apr 2009)
• Lecture 25 (Tuesday 21 Apr 2009)
• Lecture 26 (Thursday 23 Apr 2009)
• Lecture 27 (Tuesday 28 Apr 2009)
• Lecture 28 (Thursday 30 Apr 2009)
• Lecture 29 (Tuesday 5 May 2009)