| Week | Month/Day | Topic | Handout / Materials |
| 1 | Aug 26 | GNUPLOT - for plotting data | Gnuplot Slides
demo.txt Ex-gnuplot-data.txt, exercise.dat function_data1.dat, GUI frontend |
| 2 | Sept 1 | LaTeX and Lyx - For writing reports | Handout, LyX homepage Lyx tutorial, Latex Introduction |
| 3 | Sept 8 | Circuit Satisfiability | Intructions |
| 4 | Sept 15 | Getting Data on bassi | Instructions |
| - | Sept 17 | Debugging MPI programs locally | Instructions |
| 5 | Sept 22 | Make | Instructions |
| 6 | Sept 29 | Open Lab: work on the sieve of Eratosthenes | |
| 7 | Oct 6 | Knapsack | Wikipedia, Instructions |
| 8 | Oct 13 | No Labs | |
| 9 | Oct 20 | More Knapsack | Instructions |
| 10 | Oct 27 | Measuring Communication Costs | Instructions |
| 11 | Nov 3 | Introduction to OpenMP | Instructions |
| - | Nov 5 | Running OpenMP on bassi | Instructions |
| 12 | Nov 10 | OpenMP pitfalls | Instructions |
| 13 | Nov 17 | OpenMP Review | Instructions |