Concurrent Programming (CA 463)

          Student Survey of Teaching (SSOT) from last year

          Assignment   NEW for 2008!

• due Friday 19th December 2008 at 5pm
  

  Lectures

• Introduction & Shared Memory: ps pdf
• Semaphores & Monitors: ps pdf
• NEW! Extra Reader-Writer Solution using semaphores: pdf
  
• Message Passing, RPCs & Rendezvous: ps pdf

• NEW for 2007! Message Passing Interface Lectures

• Languages for Concurrent Programming: ps pdf
• Load Balancing & Fault Tolerance: ps pdf

          Past Papers (Link to Exams office site)

• CA405 Parallel & Distributed Algorithms (discontinued after 2002/03 but useful for sample questions)
• CA463 Concurrent Programming

  Interesting stuff:

• SR for MS Windows (as if you would want it!)
• the java applets in McGee & Kramer's book on concurrency (even more Dining Philosophers!)
• the SR programs in Greg Andrew's book on concurrency
• MPI Stuff
• the MPI programs in Gropp's book on MPI
• Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC)'s online MPI course
• Ian Foster's course on Designing and Building Parallel Programs
• sun's RMI page