Schedule of Lectures:

3/31-4/7

Introduction and review of basic concepts: processes, threads, and synchronization (Chapter 4 of SG, selected chapters from Lewis and Berg, Birrell Threads Paper, Cthreads document), variable weight and first class user-level threads (Psyche paper to be distributed), thread implementations. (Handouts: Chapter 12.1 of Tanenbaum's text book, Psyche paper)

Slide Handout 1: ps pdf

Slide Handout 2: ps pdf

4/9-4/16

Advanced synchronization primitives: monitors and serializers. (Handout: Relevant parts of Bloom's thesis, chapter on language for concurency)

Slide Handout 1: ps pdf

4/21-4/23

Parallel machines, their programming. Synchronization and communication in parallel systems. (Handouts: Anderson paper entitled "Performance of Spinlock Alternatives for Shared Memory Multiprocessors", and Bershad et al. paper entitled "User level Inter-process Communication").

Slide Handout 1: ps pdf

        Slide Handout 2: ps pdf

4/30 Midterm

5/5-5/12

Distributed systems (Chapters 15, 16, SG, message passing, Remote procedure calls (Handout: Birell/Nelson paper).

5/14-5/21

Distributed file systems (Chapter 17, SG). Sprite paper. Distributed Shared Memory. (Handouts: Sprite paper, DSM chapter)

5/26-5/28

Introduction to real-time systems.

6/1

Early Final exam

6/2-6/4

Protection and security.

6/9

Final exam