Lecture Notes Concurrency Topics in Java

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

Concepts of Concurrent Programming

This note is largely concerned with explicit concurrency, where concurrent behavior is specified by the program designer. It also includes a brief introduction to performance-oriented concurrency, where concurrency is used to improve program performance by taking advantage of hardware support for parallel processing. Topics covered includes: Nature of Concurrent Programs, Problems in Concurrent Programs, Properties of Concurrent Programs, Executing Concurrent Programs, Program Construction and Common Applications.

Author(s): David W. Bustard

51 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