====== Week 2 ======

  * Office hours: posted!

  * Article discussion (postponed: Wed)
    * [[http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1095421|Software and the Concurrency Revolution]] (ACM Queue, 3(7), Sep. 2005)

  * Programming assignment:  {{courses:cs377-201301:assign-1.pdf|PDF}}
    * Due: Wed, Jan 30?
    * implement 3 versions of findMax in C
    * use the Vim editor to type in your program (see sidebar for Vim resources)
    * C Questions?
    * Vim Questions?
    * General Programming Assignment Information {{courses:cs377-201301:cs377-prog-assign-guide.pdf|PDF}}

  * Reading assignment for next week: 
    * Ben-Ari Ch 1: What is Concurrent Programming?
    * Ben-Ari Ch 2: The Concurrent Programming Abstraction




===== Lecture Notes =====

  * Lecture notes: {{courses:cs377-201301:cs377-s13-lect01.pdf|PDF}}
  * A familiar problem: findMax

  * O(1) parallel max?
    * with thanks to Dr. Charles Hughes, University of Central FL
    * {{courses:cs377-201301:findmax-contant-time.pdf|PDF}}
  * Synchronization: Finding the Max of an Array  {{findmax.pdf|PDF}}

  * Ben-Ari slides: {{courses:cs377-201301:slides.pdf|PDF}}



===== Assignments =====

  * First programming assignment: 
    * implement 3 versions of findMax in C
    * use the Vim editor to type in your program (see sidebar for Vim resources)
    * {{courses:cs377-201301:assign-1.pdf|PDF}}
    * due: next Wed, Jan 30