Concurrent programming
H Schmidt
4 points
* 3 hours per week
* Second semester
* Caulfield
*
Prerequisites: SFT2207
Objectives At the completion of this subject student should know the characteristics of concurrent and parallel systems; know the different paradigms of concurrent programming; and be able to program concurrent systems and master resource access control.
Synopsis The subject teaches the principles and practices of concurrent programming and their significance in high-performance software systems development. The main themes are: concurrency and synchronisation, safety and liveness properties, share variables, critical sections, semaphores, conditional critical regions, monitors, message passing (asynchronous, remote procedure calls, rendezvous, tuple space), UNITY model, concurrent object-oriented programming, concurrent resource access control.
Assessment Examination: 60%
* Practical work: 40%
Prescribed texts
Andrews G R Concurrent programming: Principles and practice Benjamin-Cummings, 1991
Recommended texts
Agha G Actors, a model of concurrent computation in distributed systems MIT Press, 1986
Burns A and Davies G Concurrent programming Addison-Wesley, 1993
Carriero N and Gelernter D How to write parallel programs: A first course MIT Press, 1991
Chandy K M and Taylor S An introduction to parallel programming Jones and Bartlett, 1992
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