CSC 562 — OPTIMIZED C++ MULTITHREADING (CUR-243)
Summary 🟢 ✓
- Resource type: course
- Owner Unit: Computer Science
- College/School: Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
- Curriculum section: Engineering / Computer Science / CDM
- Catalog: CSC 562
- Last Verified: 2026-07-01
Course access
- Level: green (
Open Enrollment) - Rationale: No formal prerequisites listed in catalog description; open to any student meeting university registration rules.
- Prerequisites: None listed in catalog description
Verification
- Status: verified_catalog_course (
✓) - Rationale: Captured from official DePaul course catalog (2026-06-30 discovery pass).
- Source URL: catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/csc
- Last verified: 2026-07-01
Catalog description
Software architecture of applied C++ concurrency and multithreading fundamentals. Basic threading concepts: process model, threads, stacks, fibers, mutexes, semaphores, atomics and events. Leveraging advanced C++ language features relating to the memory model and the threading support in large multithreaded architectures. Architecting lock-based and lock-free concurrent data structures in applications. Designing a threaded management system to control the access and reuse of threads in applications. Designing multithreaded architecture for real-time performance. ( SE 450 or SE 456 ) and CSC 461 are prerequisites for this class.
Hardware relevance
Hardware-related coursework per catalog description review (May 2026).
Notes
Catalog course key: CSC 562.
Provenance (promotion record)
- Promotion date: 2026-07-01
- Promotion batch:
catalog-course-promotion-2026-06-30 - Provenance kernel:
depaul/XTR-000182←depaul/SRC-000788(catalog_description)- Extraction status: linked
- Evidence packets:
2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence- Schedule (capture): 2026-2027 Autumn — Edward Keenan
- Evidence captures:
- Catalog:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/catalog-search-CSC-562.html - Schedule:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/schedule-CSC-562.json - Notes: Promoted from catalog discovery evidence packets; XTR/SRC linkage to be completed in forthcoming provenance refactor.