Concurrent Programming (CA 463)         

          Student Surveys of Teaching

• 2004/5
• 2009/10    

• Specification New!

  Selected Sample Solutions to Past Exam Papers 

• January 2010 (pdf)
• January 2009 (pdf)

        Student Consultation Times

• Tues 3pm to 4pm
• Thurs 3pm to 4pm
• or by appointment on email

Lectures

• Introduction & Shared Memory: pdf, (Dekker's Algorithm)
  
• Semaphores & Monitors: pdf
• Java Concurrency: pdf
  
• Message Passing: pdf
  
• RPCs & Rendezvous: pdf

• Message Passing Interface Lectures

• Languages for Concurrent Programming: pdf
• Load Balancing & Fault Tolerance: 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 (if you 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