Engineering 9869 Advanced Concurrent Programming
Instructor |
Dr. D. K. Peters |
Lectures | Monday, Wednesday, Friday 0900-0950,
EN1000 |
Office hour | T.B.D. |
Schedule and Examples |
Evaluation |
Text |
Links |
References |
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Detailed Schedule and Examples
The following is the tentative schedule of
lectures, mid-terms and assignments
for the term. Lecture topics may change slightly as the term progresses.
Click an assignment or demo to view it.
Click
on a topic for a printable (pdf) thumbnail version of the class notes for that topic.
These may not always be
available in advance of the lectures and are not to be considered
a substitute for
attending class.
If you need information about the file formats, or instructions
for downloading them check here.
# | Date |
Deadline |
Topic |
Handouts & Examples
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1 | W 09.05 |
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Introduction |
Course Information Sheet |
2 | F 09.07 |
|
Concurrent Architectures &
Applications (Ch. 1) |
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3 | M 09.10 |
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Processes and
Synchronization (Ch. 2) |
|
Couse cancelled due to lack of
enrollment |
4 | W 09.12 |
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5 | F 09.14 |
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6 | M 09.17 |
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Locks & Barriers (Ch.
3) |
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7 | W 09.19 |
Project proposal |
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8 | F 09.21 |
Assignment 1 |
|
9 | M 09.24 |
|
Semaphores (Ch.
4) |
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10 | W 09.26 |
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11 | F 09.28 |
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Monitors (Ch.
5) |
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12 | M 10.01 |
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13 | W 10.03 |
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14 | F 10.05 |
Assignment 2 |
Message
Passing |
|
15 | W 10.10 |
Mid-Term
Test
| |
16 | F 10.12 |
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Message Passing (cont'd) |
|
17 | M 10.15 |
|
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18 | W 10.17 |
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RPC & Rendezvous (Ch.
8) |
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19 | F 10.19 |
Assignment 3 |
|
20 | M 10.22 |
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Patterns for Interaction
(Ch. 9) |
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21 | W 10.24 |
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22 | F 10.26 |
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23 | M 10.29 |
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Scientific Computing
(Ch. 11) |
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24 | W 10.31 |
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25 | F 11.02 |
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26 | M 11.05 |
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27 | W 11.07 |
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Real-Time Systems
|
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28 | F 11.09 |
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29 | W 11.14 |
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30 | F 11.16 |
Project |
|
31 | M 11.19 |
|
Model Checking |
|
32 | W 11.21 |
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33 | F 11.23 |
Assignment 4 |
|
34 | M 11.26 |
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Transaction
Processing |
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35 | W 11.28 |
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36 | F 11.30 |
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Review |
|
Textbook
- G. R. Andrews, Foundations of Multithreaded, Parallel, and
Distributed Programming, Addison-Wesley, 2000. ISBN 0-201-35752-6.
Evaluation
Assignments | 20% |
Project | 15% |
Mid-term | 10% |
Final Exam | 45% |
Better of Midterm & Final | 10 |
Related Links
- Textbook
homepage.
- In particular, pay attention to the
Errata
Page.
- Beowulf Project
- A project that connects many PCs to create a very powerful computer.
Also a site at Cal. Tech.
- Sun's Java Technology Home Page
- This is a source for lots of information and tools for Java
programming.
References
Here are some books other than the textbook that you might find useful. I
have one copy of each of them which you can borrow
for short periods.
- M. Ben-Ari, Principles of Concurrent and Distributed Programming
, Prentice Hall, 1990.
- This is the "classic" text in this area. It is fairly
rigorous (i.e., mathematical) and covers the fundamentals of
concurrent programming in a fair amount of detail. Also available in
the QEII library, Call no. QA 76.5 B393 1990.
- Abraham Silberschatz and Peter B. Galvin, Operating System
Concepts, Addison Wesley, 1994.
- That's the textbook used in Operating Systems (Engr. 6863). Some of
it may be useful.
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum. Distributed Operating Systems. Prentice Hall,
1995.
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Maarten van Steen. Distributed Systems Principles and
Paradigms. Prentice Hall, second edition, 2007.
- David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy, Computer Architecture: A
Quantitative Approach, second edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 1996.
- That's the textbook you used in Computer Architecture (Engr.
5863).
- Hassan Gomaa, Designing Concurrent, Distributed, and Real-Time
Applications with UML, Addison-Wesley, 2000. ISBN
0-201-65793-7.
- This is one of the "Object Technology Series" that takes a fairly
serious look at applying UML to the kinds of problems that we look at in
this course.
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