Concurrent Programming Course Material

Concurrent Programming in Pharo

This PDF covers the following topics related to Concurrent Programming in Pharo : Concurrent programming in Pharo, Studying an example, A simple example, Process, Process lifetime, Creating processes, First look at ProcessorScheduler, Process priorities, ProcessScheduler rules, Let us trace better what is happening, Yielding the computation, Important API, Conclusion Semaphores, Scheduler’s principles, Some examples of semaphores at work.

Author(s): Stephane Ducasse, Guillermo Polito

58 Pages

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 Programming Class Notes (PDF 110P)

This note focuses on Concurrent Programming, Parallel Programming, Multi-Processing and Multi-Threading. Topics covered includes: Thread, Properties of a Thread, Lifecycle of a process, Concurrent Hardware, Basic Uniprocessor, Multiprocessors, Basic Hardware, Kessel’s Algorithm, Java Threads Scheduling Model, Compiler Optimization and Mutlithreading, Ticket Algorithm, Bakery Algorithm, Semaphores, Concurrency Problems with Deadlock, Speculative Multithreading (SpMT).

Author(s): Gabriel Lemonde

110 Pages