CS1760 – The Art of Multiprocessor Programming

Fall 2007

Tuesday &Thursday 2:30- 3:50 PM (K Hour), Lubrano

Graduate credit papers are due 7 December

Homework 1 is due 4 October before class.

Homework 2 is due 25 October before class.

Homework 3 is due 27 November before class..

Final Exam in class 6 December

Course Information

• Introduction
• Syllabus
• Collaboration policy

The course textbook is The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, by Maurice Herlihy and Nir Shavit,.

Lecture Slides

Introduction	Mutual exclusion	Concurrent Objects	Shared memory	Synchronization operations
Universality	Spin Locks	Concurrent Lists	Queues, stacks	Concurrent Skip Lists
Concurrent Hash Sets	Counting	Scheduling	Barriers	Transactional memory
Software review	Hardware review

People

· Instructor:  Maurice Herlihy

· TA: Robert Manchester. Hours: 4-5 Monday and Wednesday in the Fishbowl.

· TA: Lucia Penso. By appointment.

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Maurice Herlihy