Lecture Sequence Plan for 94.511 Design of High-performance Software 

C. M. Woodside, Winter 2003

1	Jan 7	Intro, software description (A1 - A26)

2	Jan 9	Sequential software, workload table reduction and 
bounds (A27 - 46)

3	Jan 14	Jump to discuss (1) functional or high-level 
operations in workload table reduction (A50 - 60), (2) multiple 
programs or classes isharing the same system (A74 - 83)... introduce 
QNAP...Give Assignment 1

4	Jan 16	Discuss queueing models and QNAP (on-line 
documentation), and performance improvement principles and
examples (A84 - 93)

5	Jan 21	(cont'd) and getting parameter values (A61 - 73) 

6	Jan 23	Component interaction model, ... Assignment 1 Due 

7	Jan 28	Layered models from components and subscenarios (B1 
-13) This lecture must be rescheduled!!

8	Jan 30	Cont'd (print service example, and concurrency) (B14 - 
B32). Give Assignment 2

9	Feb 4	Layered modeling and examples (B33 -47)

10	Feb 6	Software bottlenecks (B48 - 58)

11	Feb 11	Second phase for concurrency. Discuss Projects. 

12	Feb 13	UML annotations for performance. Give papers to read 
for presentation. 

Mid-break Feb 18 (or earlier): Assignment 2 is due

Break

13	Feb 25	Short oral presentations of papers 25th and 27th.

14	Feb 27	...Deadline to choose projects 



15	Mar 4 TOPICS: to Mar 20, Patterns (optimistic, replication,
partitioning), Resource architecture, Parallelism,
Petri net and stochastic process-algebra-based models, UML profile for
performance, schedulability analysis, performance antipatterns, web
systems
16	Mar 6  Written report on the paper presented, and project 
proposal are due.
17	Mar 11
18	Mar 13
19	Mar 18
20	Mar 20

21	Mar 25 Oral Project Presentations  now to April 3 (Additional 
times will be scheduled as necessary)

22	Mar 27	
23	Apr 1
24	Apr 3

Fri Apr 4: Written project report is due, 2 weeks additional is 
available on request.

25	Apr 8 Review lecture

Apr 15 Final exam... subject to agreement in class