This course will cover foundational topics in concurrent and parallel programming. Multithreading, event processing, concurrency control abstractions and mechanisms, memory models, scheduling and load-balancing, implementation techniques, parallel algorithms, and formal methods are among the topics that will be covered. Programming exercises will be given to expose students to multicore computing platforms.

Usually Offered:	Spring
Credit:	3 hours (class)
Prerequisite:	CS 251
University Catalog:	CS 390C
Schedule:	Spring 2008 Instructor: Suresh Jagannathan & Ananth Grama