CS 234 - Concurrent Programming

Credits: 4

Students are introduced to concurrent, parallel, and distributed programming, including concepts of asynchrony, locality, and performance and the differences between CPU and GPU architectures. Common concurrency paradigms are considered: processes and threads; message-passing; monitors; semaphores. Testing for correctness and characterizing throughput, speedup and scalability is covered. Run-time issues arising from concurrent tasks are identified (critical sections, race conditions, liveliness) and ameliorated.

Pre-Requisites: CS 126 and CS 246
Repeatable: May not be repeated for credit
Lecture: 2
Lab: 3