Concurrent and Parallel Programming

Academic Year 2012/2013

Lecture Notes

• Advanced Computer Architectures
  • Speed-up performance models
  • Parallel Architectures Overview
  • Parallel Architectures Interconnections
  • Current Trends
• Parallel Programming
  • Correctness Conditions
  • Progress Conditions
  • Progress Taxonomy
  • Concurrent Data Structures
• Distributed Programming
  • Introduction to MPI
  • Event-Driven Programming and High Performance Simulation
  • Parallel Discrete Event Simulation
  • Synchronization Protocols
  • The ROme OpTimistic Simulator (ROOT-Sim) case study
• Software Transactional Memory
  • Introduction to Software Transactional Memory
  • Overview on current implementations: TL2, TinySTM, JVSTM, …
  • Usage Tutorials