Software Engineering for Multicore Systems.
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Introduction:

Introduction to Multicores and Software Engineering - 
	Review of Multicore Hardware - SISD, SIMD, MISD, MIMD, 
multiple cpus, homogeneous, heterogeneous, dynamic, shared memory, 
distributed memory, hybrid, interconnect (read 1)

Parallel programming basics - threads, messages, different types of 
synchronization/barriers, examples (read 2)

Performance issues - max speedup, cost factors - from memory overhead 
to communication overhead, ideal and useful parallelism. (Prog 
assignment 1)

Different types of parallelism - fork-join, SPMD model, task parallel, 
data parallel, pipe-line parallelism (Prog assignment 2)

Memory models - atomic, sequential, strict, relaxed ... 

Testing and Tuning - issues in parallel programming - race conditions, 
dead locks, live locks, safety, idle time, locality.

Mapping workflow to parallel algorithms - 
	divide and conquer, pipe-line parallelism, understanding 
schedulers, patterns in parallel programming. 

Services: Characterization, Identification, Batch to Online 
translation.

Measurement of parallelism.
	- threads, barriers, cost model  (Read 3)

New things that will be learnt: Java threads, Eclipse based Debugging, 
version control system, JUNIT, news group/web notice board.