Concurrent Systems (CS) in WS 2017/18
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Lecture content
- Introduction
- Overview and organisation
- Fundamentals
- Concurrency
- causality (interdependencies, dimensions)
- resource sharing (principles, competition, synchronisation)
- Processes
- sequential, non-sequential (concurrent, simultaneous, interacting)
- physical (kernel/user thread) and logical (scheduling states) characteristics
- Critical sections
- race condition, race management (sequential/concurrent control)
- patterns of data/control-flow races
- Elementary operations
- Pessimistic methods
- Locks
- Semaphore
- Monitor and condition variable
- Deadlock and livelock
- Optimistic methods
- Interrupt-transparent synchronisation
- Non-blocking synchronisation
- Transactional memory
- Progress guarantees
- Conclusion
- Rummage table
- Wrap-up
Note that the above-listed lecture topics are still under construction and subject to change.
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Exercise content
Blackboard exercises will deepen and complement the lectures contents. Additional programming tasks facilitate practical experience on concurrent systems.
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Lecturer and Tutors
UnivIS Schedule
Detailed Schedule
| 42 | 16.10 | 17.10 | 18.10 | 19.10 | 20.10 |
| Lecture 1 | |||||
| 43 | 23.10 | 24.10 | 25.10 | 26.10 | 27.10 |
| Exercise 1 | Lecture 2 | ||||
| 44 | 30.10 | 31.10 | 1.11 | 2.11 | 3.11 |
| 45 | 6.11 | 7.11 | 8.11 | 9.11 | 10.11 |
| Exercise 2 | Lecture 3 | ||||
| 46 | 13.11 | 14.11 | 15.11 | 16.11 | 17.11 |
| Discussion 1 | Lecture 4 | ||||
| 47 | 20.11 | 21.11 | 22.11 | 23.11 | 24.11 |
| Comp. Ex. | Lecture 5 | ||||
| 48 | 27.11 | 28.11 | 29.11 | 30.11 | 1.12 |
| Exercise 3 | Lecture 6 | ||||
| 49 | 4.12 | 5.12 | 6.12 | 7.12 | 8.12 |
| Discussion 2 | Lecture 7 | ||||
| 50 | 11.12 | 12.12 | 13.12 | 14.12 | 15.12 |
| Comp. Ex. | |||||
| 51 | 18.12 | 19.12 | 20.12 | 21.12 | 22.12 |
| Exercise 4 | Lecture 9 | ||||
| 52 | 25.12 | 26.12 | 27.12 | 28.12 | 29.12 |
| 1 | 1.1 | 2.1 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 5.1 |
| 2 | 8.1 | 9.1 | 10.1 | 11.1 | 12.1 |
| Discussion 3 | Lecture 10 | ||||
| 3 | 15.1 | 16.1 | 17.1 | 18.1 | 19.1 |
| Exercise 5 | Lecture 11 | ||||
| 4 | 22.1 | 23.1 | 24.1 | 25.1 | 26.1 |
| Discussion 4 | |||||
| 5 | 29.1 | 30.1 | 31.1 | 1.2 | 2.2 |
| 6 | 5.2 | 6.2 | 7.2 | 8.2 | 9.2 |
| Discussion 5 | Lecture 14 |
