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 2013-2014

II semester, 6 ECTS.

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

Supervisor: Prof. Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi.

Instructors:

Prof. Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi (lectures);
Dr. Jean-Vivien Millo (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. 2013-2014

Lectures

Date	Subject
Monday, February 10, 2014, 8:00-11:45	Introduction Processes and Threads
Tuesday, February 11, 2014, 8:00-11:45	Communication: basic concepts, RPC and RMI, message-based and stream-based communication, multicast
Monday, February 17, 2014, 8:00-11:45	Naming Synchronization
Tuesday, February 18, 2014, 8:00-11:45	Distributed Architectures Consistency and Replication
Tuesday, March 4, 2014, 8:00-11:45	Intermediate Test Parallel Architectures
Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 8:00-11:45	Describing Concurrent and Parallel Algorithms Theoretical Models
Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 8:00-11:45	Languages and Libraries Throughput-Oriented Architectures

Class Assignment/Lab Work Sessions

Date	Subject
Monday, March 10, 2014, morning	Session 1 (and its Eclipse Project)
Monday, March 17, 2014, morning	Session 2 (and its Eclipse Project)
Monday, March 24, 2014, morning	Session 3: more work on the same subject as Session 2
Monday, March 31, 2014, morning	Session 4: Formal Models of Computation for Concurrency
Monday, April 7, 2014, morning	Session 5
Monday, April 14, 2014, morning	Session 6
Monday, April 18, 2014, 14:00-17:45	Session 7

Exams

Date	Description
Monday, May 12, 2014, 8:00-11:45	Project defense
Monday, May 26, 2014, 14:00-15:30	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.

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 May 7, 2014