Parallelism

This class is taught in English as part of the International Master in Computer Science of the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis.

Academic Year 2014-2015

II semester, 6 ECTS.

Previous years: 2013-2014, 2012-2013 (with a different name: Concurrency & Parallelism).

Supervisor: Prof. Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi.

Instructors:

Prof. Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi (lectures);
Abdoul Macina (class assignments and lab work sessions).

Timetable

This module consists of 27 hours of lectures (cours magistral, CM) and 27 hours of class assignments (travaux dirigés, TD) and lab work (travaux pratiques, TP).
The detailed timetable, with the rooms used for the sessions, may be looked up through the HYPERPLANNING of the Ecole Polytechnique.

Class Schedule for A.Y. 2014-2015

Lectures

Date	Subject
Monday, February 9, 2015, 8:00-11:45	Introduction Processes and Threads
Tuesday, February 10, 2015, 8:00-11:45	Communication: basic concepts, RPC and RMI, message-based and stream-based communication, multicast
Monday, February 16, 2015, 8:00-11:45	Naming Synchronization
Tuesday, February 17, 2015, 8:00-11:45	Distributed Architectures Consistency and Replication
Tuesday, March 3, 2015, 8:00-11:45	Intermediate Test Parallel Architectures
Monday, March 9, 2015, 8:00-11:45	Describing Concurrent and Parallel Algorithms Theoretical Models
Tuesday, March 17, 2015, 8:00-11:45	Languages and Libraries Throughput-Oriented Architectures

Class Assignment/Lab Work Sessions

Date	Subject
Tuesday, March 10, 2015, morning	Session 1 (and its Eclipse Project)
Monday, March 16, 2015, morning	Session 2 (and its Eclipse Project)
Monday, March 23, 2015, morning	Session 3: more work on the same subject as Session 2
Monday, March 30, 2015, morning	Session 4: Formal Models of Computation for Concurrency
Monday, April 13, 2015, morning	Session 5
Monday, April 20, 2015, morning	Session 6
Monday, April 27, 2015, 14:00-17:45	Session 7

Exams

Date	Description
Monday, May 4, 2015, 8:00-11:45	Project defense
TBD	Final written test

Support

Textbooks

Mordechai Ben-Ari. Principles of Concurrent and Distributed Programming, 2nd Edition. Addison-Wesley, 2006.

Andrew S. Tannenbaum and Maarten van Steen. Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms, 2nd Edition. Prentice Hall, 2007.

Slides

The slides used in class may be downloaded by clicking on the title of the corresponding lecture.

On-Line Resources

Designing and Building Parallel Programs, a collection of resources dedicated to parallel programming, edited by Ian Foster.

Grading

The final mark is computed as a weighted average of three individual marks:

a written intermediate test (weight: 30%);
a written final test (weight: 30%);
a project (weight: 40%).

As an example, this was the text of the final written test in academic year 2013/2013.

Last Updated on March 8, 2015