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Parallel Programming (Spring 2011) |
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| Course code : | IPARP-U1 | ||
| ECTS Credits : | 7,5 | Status : | Optional |
| Placement : | 5. & 6. semester | Hours per week : | 4 |
| Length : | 1 semester | Teaching Language : | English |
| Principal Content : | Upon completion of the course the students is expected to be able to: 1. Explain the concepts of threads and processes including scheduling principles and corresponding states and context switching. 2. Explain the concepts of critical section and mutual exclusion and identify and explain methods and principles for synchronisation. 3. Explain the concepts of deadlock and livelock and starvation and how to deal with those phenomena. 4. Explain the concept of priority inversion and possible solutions to this. 5. Explain methods for inter-process communication (IPC) 6. Apply processes and threads in programming languages as C/C++ 7. Identify when critical sections and/or mutual exclusion are required. |
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| Teaching method : | The lessons consist of theory combined with practical exercises and a course assignment. | ||
| Required prequisites : | Documented knowledge corresponding to PROG1 and PROG2. | ||
| Responsible teacher : | Henrik Kold Mikkelsen
, hokm@dtu.dk |
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