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Concurrent Systems (CS) in WS 2014/15

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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

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang
Schröder-Preikschat

Gabor Drescher, M. Sc.

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