This module is a practical introduction to concurrent programming. It is taught in English.
1st lecture takes place on September 11th!
Lectures: Mondays 12:15 - 14:00, Narva mnt 18 - 1017 Labs: Mondays 16:15 - 18:00, Narva mnt 18
Lecturers: Mohammad Anagreh, Stefan Kuhn
Note that for now we do not plan to use moodle, everthing will be done in courses.
Homework
Four pieces of homework must be submitted and passed. They are found under "Homework" in the navigation bar.
Since homework 3 is more demanding this year, we have decided to count this for 3 +4.
Grading
Your final grade will be based on the results of project and exam.
Exam - 50% Project - 50%
Here are some example questions for the exam. In general, we will try to ask for concepts, not remote details.
- Explain the general purpose of a Future
- Who decides if a thread runs or is suspended? Explain the consequences of your answer
- In Foster's methodology, the four steps in designing a concurrent algorithm are partitioning, communication, agglomeration, and mapping. Explain the communication step.
- Explain data parallelism
Exam dates
- first attempt: Monday, 18th of December, 16:15 (this is the slot of the last lab)
- second attempt: Monday, 15th of January, 16:15
- resit: Monday, 29th of January, 16:15
Project work
The deadline for project submission is January 15th 2023. The task is found here:
Submission is via courses
4. Project