Parallel, Concurrent and Distributed Programming (Autumn 2022)

• 1. Course Syllabus and Grading Schema
• 2. Software Prerequisites
• 3. FAQ on Learning and Plagiarism

• Instructor: Ilya Sergey

• Lectures: Thursdays, 1-4pm

• Location: Yale-NUS College, Y-CR15

• Office hours: #RC3-01-03E (Cendana), Thursdays, after the lecture

• Peer Tutor: Karolina Grzeszkiewicz

• Peer Tutoring Sessions: Mondays 7-9pm, Classroom 3

Lectures

• 1. Week 01: Introduction
• 2. Week 02: Scala Primer
• 3. Week 03: Mutual Exclusion
• 4. Week 04: Spin Locks and Contention
• 5. Week 04: Monitors and Blocking Synchronisation
• 6. Week 05: Concurrent Objects
• 7. Midterm Project
• 8. Week 07: Concurrent Lists and Stacks

Lecture materials will be posted gradually as we progress through the course.

Supplementary Materials

• GitHub Organisation

• Code from the Lectures (email me you GitHub name to get access)

Textbooks

1. The Art of Multiprocessor Programming by Maurice Herlihy and Nir Shavit

2. Learning Concurrent Programming in Scala by Aleksandar Prokopec

3. Introduction to Reliable and Secure Distributed Programming by Christian Cachin et al.