Anything on the schedule more than 24 hours in advance is subject to change.

Week Day Description Readings Slides Due
1 8/25 What is a memory model?   PPT, PDF  
1 8/27 hardware MMs, intro Russ Cox’s blog PPT, PDF  
2 9/1 Labor Day, no class      
2 9/3 hardware MMs, operational     HW1 due 9/5
3 9/8 sick day      
3 9/10 operational MMs: TSO   rules  
4 9/15 operational MMs: PSO      
4 9/17 axiomatic MMs: SC   rules  
5 9/22 axiomatic MMs: TSO      
5 9/24 axiomatic MMs: TSO, RA release-acquire   HW2 due 9/26
6 9/29 hardware MMs, testing x86-TSO, diy, litmus paper    
6 10/1 hardware MMs, checking diy, herd paper, herd docs, rmem    
7 10/6 language MMs, intro Russ Cox’s blog, DRF-SC    
7 10/8 language MMs, atomics and non-atomics      
8 10/13 language MMs, SC+NA      
8 10/15 language MMs, RA+NA      
9 10/20 language MMs, RLX C++ concurrency, CppMem    
9 10/22 language MMs, C11     project proposal due 10/24
10 10/27 sick day     HW3 due 10/27
10 10/29 language MMs, implementing compiling C11, ARM compilation scheme    
11 11/3 compilation schemes      
11 11/5 language MMs, fixing C11 fix 1, C11 fix 2    
12 11/10 more C11 fixes      
12 11/12 C11 fixes, continued     project check-in due 11/13
13 11/17 program logics      
13 11/19 weak-memory logics iGPS    
14 11/24 guest lecture      
14 11/26 Thanksgiving, no class      
15 12/1 weak-memory logics, continued      
15 12/3 review/the big picture     final project due 12/5