Week 2
- Lecture Notes
- Assignments

Week 2

Office hours: posted!

Article discussion (postponed: Wed)
- Software and the Concurrency Revolution (ACM Queue, 3(7), Sep. 2005)

Programming assignment: 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 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: PDF
A familiar problem: findMax

O(1) parallel max?
- with thanks to Dr. Charles Hughes, University of Central FL
- PDF
Synchronization: Finding the Max of an Array PDF

Ben-Ari slides: 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)
- PDF
- due: next Wed, Jan 30