Advanced Concurrent Programming Notes

Start Concurrent by Barry Wittman

This page provides the book Start Concurrent: A Gentle Introduction to Concurrent Programming by Barry Wittman that covers the following topics related to Concurrent Programming : Computer Basics, Problem Solving and Programming, Primitive Types and Strings, Selection, Repetition, Arrays, Simple Graphical User Interfaces, Methods, Classes, Interfaces, Inheritance, Exceptions, Concurrent Programming, Synchronization, Constructing Graphical User Interfaces, Testing and Debugging, Polymorphism, Dynamic Data Structures, Recursion, File I/O, Network Communication.

Author(s): Barry Wittman

NA Pages

Concurrent Programming in Harmony by Cornell

This PDF covers the following topics related to Concurrent Programming : On Concurrent Programming, Hello World!, The Problem of Concurrent Programming, The Harmony Virtual Machine, Critical Sections, Peterson’s Algorithm, Harmony Methods and Pointers, Specification, Spinlock, Lock Implementations, Concurrent Data Structures, Fine-Grained Locking, Testing: Checking Behaviors, Debugging, Conditional Waiting, Reader/Writer Locks, Bounded Buffer, Split Binary Semaphores, Starvation, Monitors, Deadlock, Actors and Message Passing, Barrier Synchronization, Interrupts, Non-Blocking Synchronization, Alternating Bit Protocol, Leader Election, Transactions and Two Phase Commit, Chain Replication, Working with Actions, Replicated Atomic Read/Write Register, Distributed Consensus, Paxos, Needham-Schroeder Authentication Protocol.

Author(s): Robbert van Renesse

225 Pages

Concurrent and Distributed Programming

This note covers the following topics: Introduction to Concurrency, Trivial Concurrent Programming Examples, Developing under Windows, Introduction to C, Introduction to C++, Introduction to Java, Introduction to Ada, Introduction to Perl, Correctness of Concurrent Programs, Mutual Exclusion, Message Passing, Dining Philosphers, The Enhanced Dining Philosphers Problem, Java, Threads, Quotes from the JLS on Threading, Ada Concurrent Programming, Threads in Perl, The Posix Threads (pthreads) Library, A Programmer's Introduction to Windows, Windows Processes and Threads.

Author(s): Ray Toal

NA Pages

Concurrent Programming Course Material

This note covers the following topics: Foundations of Multithreaded, Parallel, and Distributed Programming, Basic Concurrency Theory, Introduction to SPIN, Concurrent Programming Practice: Processes and threads, Synchronization Mechanisms.

Author(s): Gregory R. Andrews and Hans Henrik

NA Pages