Language Resources

Berkeley UPC: http://upc.lbl.gov/
GWU UPC http://upc.gwu.edu/
Tarek El-Ghazawi, William Carlson, Thomas Sterling, and Katherine Yelick. UPC: Distributed Shared Memory Programming. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. © 2005.
- Ch. 1: PDF

The classic CSP text: Communicating Sequential Processes (Hoare)
The modern CSP text: The Theory and Practice of Concurrency (Roscoe) (PDF)
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- Professor Peter Welch's occam tutorial slides and
- FAQs from his course at the University of Kent
- occam-pi: (The occam-pi programming language and reference)
JCSP: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/ofa/jcsp/ (CSP package for Java)
Ian East. Parallel Processing with Communicating Process Architecture. University College London Press, © 1995. (This text is out of print, but the author has provided the text in PDF chapters for use in our course.)

Nicholas Carriero and David Gelernter. How to Write Parallel Programs: A First Course. MIT Press, © 1990.
- This text is out of print, but here's the PDF
  (also available at http://zoo.cs.yale.edu/classes/cs424/howto.pdf)

Definitions:
- CUDA – Compute Unified Device Architecture
- GPU – Graphics Processing Unit
- GPU cluster – An HPC cluster equipped with multiple GPU devices (rather than CPUs)
- GPGPU – General Purpose GPU (i.e., not just for optimized graphics processing)
CUDA is
- a parallel computing platform and API model created by Nvidia. –Wikipedia
- more than a library for a programming language(s)
- an extension of C/C++ to allow programmers to use nVidia GPU cards for GPGPU programming
Tutorials:
- https://devblogs.nvidia.com/even-easier-introduction-cuda/

Office website for the Erlang programming language
- Tutorial guides
- Online documentation

Other references will be listed here as necessary.

Unified Parallel C (UPC)