The course increased emphasis on multithreading which required an extra week of course work. Consequently, to accommodate this extra week, the first week that was reserved for review of pertinent computer architecture concepts was coverted into a comprehensive Homework #1 involving extensive literature review. Furthermore, the lecture session on introduction to Linux was substituted with a comprehensive instructor-guided laboratory exercise Exercise #2.

This topic's lecture material introduces C++11 STL containsers and STL algorithms for performing various standard problem solving operations.

This topic provides the core coverage of various concurrency and parallelism topics including:

• Data vs Task Parallelism
• Race conditions
• C++11 threads
• Producer-Consumer model
• Monitors and the std::condition_variable class
• Inter-thread communication using std::future
• Using std::async and std::promise
• Using std::atomic