Day/Time: Tuesday 6:30-9:20 pm;

Place: UW: Paul G. Allen Center for CS&E, Room 305; MS: Building 99/room 1915

This course will focus on programming parallel/concurrent applications emphasizing a tool-based approach to performance and correctness.

Topics include:

1. •Programming patterns for parallelism and concurrency
   

2. •Performance pitfalls and solutions
   

3. •Correctness criteria:
   

4. ✓Data-race freedom
   

5. ✓Atomicity
   

6. ✓Linearizability
   

7. ✓Determinism
   

8. •Advanced topics
   

9. ✓Memory models
   

10. ✓Deterministic programming models

Instructor: Madan Musuvathi (Microsoft Research) madanm@u.washington.edu

TA: Kıvanç Muşlu kivanc@cs.washington.edu

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The Art of Multiprocessor Programming

Link: Amazon Page

Patterns for Parallel Programming

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Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET

Link: Codeplex Page

Alpaca can be downloaded here.