Concurrent Programming (CA 463)

          Student Survey of Teaching (SSOT) from a few years ago

          Assignment

• New! Specification
• due Friday 18th December 2009 at 5pm
  

  Lectures

• Introduction & Shared Memory: pdf
• Semaphores & Monitors: pdf
• Extra Reader-Writer Solution using semaphores: pdf
• New! Updated Java Concurrency slides pdf
  
• Message Passing, RPCs & Rendezvous: pdf

• Message Passing Interface Lectures

• Languages for Concurrent Programming: pdf
• New notes on SR 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 (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