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CSCI 305: Programming Languages

Concurrency

Instructions

1. Review the Lecture Slides
2. Attend Class
3. Improved Video Lecture - (01:02:47)

Some Resources

Books (I’ve Read Most of these)

• Java Concurrency in Practice, Brian Goetz
• The Art of Concurrency, Clay Breshears
• Concurrency State Models & Java Programs, Jeff Magee
• Parallel Programing: for Multicore and Cluster Systems, Thomas Rauber and Gudela Runger
• Using OpenMP: Poratable Shared Memory Parallel Programming, Barbara Chapman
• CUDA by Example: An Introduction to General-Purpose GPU Programming, Jason Sanders and Edward Kandrot
• Programming Massively Prallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach, David B. Kirk and Wen-mei W. Hwu
• Parallel Programming with .NET: Design Patterns for Decomposition and Coordination on Multicore Architectures, Colin Campbell and Ralph Johnson
• The Art of Multiprocess Programming, Maurice Herlihy and Nir Shavit
• Patterns for Parllel Programming, Timothy Mattson
• Spark: The Definitive Guide, Bill Chambers and Matei Zaharia
• Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks: When Threads Unravel, Paul Butcher
• Programming with POSIX Threads, David R. Butenhof
• Heterogeneous Computing with OpenCL 2.0, DAvid R. Kaeli and Perhaad Mistry
• Python Parallel Programming Cookbook, Giancarlo Zaccone

Tutorials, Articles, etc.

Java

• http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/JavaConcurrency/article.html
• https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-jtp0730/index.html
• https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp11137/index.html
• https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp03048/index.html
• https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/concurrency/index.html
• https://www.infoq.com/articles/Functional-Style-Callbacks-Using-CompletableFuture
• http://www.nurkiewicz.com/2013/05/java-8-definitive-guide-to.html
• https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/collections/streams/index.html

Python

• https://www.toptal.com/python/beginners-guide-to-concurrency-and-parallelism-in-python
• https://code.tutsplus.com/articles/introduction-to-parallel-and-concurrent-programming-in-python–cms-28612
• https://www.oreilly.com/learning/python-cookbook-concurrency

Ruby

• https://www.toptal.com/ruby/ruby-concurrency-and-parallelism-a-practical-primer

Amdahl’s Law

• http://impact.asu.edu/cse520fa08/AmdhalsLawMulticoreEra.pdf