ECE498SL Spring 2012 (ECE409 pending)

Lecture: TTh 11:00-12:20 in 106B8 Engineering Hall
Office Hours: T 1-3 upstairs in miaZa's (just west of Wright on the south side of Green; if you don't see me in the east side, check the west side even if the door is closed)

Handouts and Notes:

• Course Overview
• Note #1: Linkage with Other Languages
• Note: A Few Comments on Inlining
• A Comparison of Exception Mechanisms within Functions (associated code package)
• Some Thoughts on Testing and Debugging
• Anatomy of a Bug (John Kelm on RigelSim)
• Examples from Integrating Systems Research into Undergraduate Curriculum (WCAE-09)
• Chapter 3 of my Ph.D. thesis (describes a lock-free multi-producer, single-consumer queue)
• Note #4: Synchronization Concepts
• Case Study: Rigel Task Model Livelock

Assignments:

• Homework #1 -- due in class on Tuesday 31 January
• Homework #2 (code package) -- due in class/by e-mail on Tuesday 28 February
• Lab #1 (code package) -- due on Tuesday 10 April (an extension from 5 April)
• Required Reading: Twelve Ways to Fool the Masses, by David Bailey
• Lab #4-1 -- assigned 1 April, due mid-June
• Lab #2 -- due on Tuesday 24 April (code package)
• Required Reading: You Don't Know Jack about Shared Variables or Memory Models, by Hans Boehm and Sarita Adve (use a UIUC machine to access full text)

Background Reading:

• 391 Student Notes (the entire package except for some I-mail notes still in progress; review, including C, is Set #0)
• ECE391 Notes on Posix Threads

Examples:

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

Exams from Previous Semesters:

• Spring 2011 midterm
• Spring 2011 final
• Spring 2010 midterm
• Spring 2010 final
• Spring 2009 midterm
• Spring 2009 final

Lectures:

• Lecture 1 (Tuesday 17 Jan 2012)
• Lecture 2 (Thursday 19 Jan 2012)
• Lecture 3 (Tuesday 24 Jan 2012)
• Lecture 4 (Thursday 26 Jan 2012)
• Lecture 5 (Tuesday 31 Jan 2012)
• Lecture 6 (Thursday 2 Feb 2012)
• Lecture 7 (Tuesday 7 Feb 2012)
• Lecture 8 (Thursday 9 Feb 2012)
• Lecture 9 (Tuesday 14 Feb 2012)
• Lecture 10 (Thursday 16 Feb 2012)
• Lecture 11 (Tuesday 21 Feb 2012)
• Lecture 12 (Thursday 23 Feb 2012)
• Lecture 13 (Tuesday 28 Feb 2012)
• Lecture 14 (Thursday 1 Mar 2012)
• Midterm Exam in Class (Tuesday 6 Mar 2012)
• Lecture 16 (Thursday 8 Mar 2012)
• Lecture 17 (Tuesday 13 Mar 2012)
• Lecture 18 (Thursday 15 Mar 2012)
• Lecture 18 Supplement: Specification for a Task with No Parallelism (Thursday 15 Mar 2012)
• Lecture 19 (Tuesday 27 Mar 2012)
• Lecture 20 (Thursday 29 Mar 2012)
• Lecture 21 (Tuesday 3 Apr 2012)
• Lecture 22 (Thursday 5 Apr 2012)
• Lecture 23 (Tuesday 10 Apr 2012)
• Lecture 24 (Thursday 12 Apr 2012)
• Lecture 25 (Tuesday 17 Apr 2012)
• Guest Lecture by Matt Frank (Thursday 19 April 2012)
• Lecture 27 (Tuesday 24 Apr 2012)
• Lecture 28 (Thursday 26 Apr 2012)
• Lecture 29 (Tuesday 1 May 2012)

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