Language Resources

• Berkeley UPC: http://upc.lbl.gov/

• Hoare's original 1978 CACM paper
• The classic CSP text: Communicating Sequential Processes (Hoare)
• The modern CSP text: The Theory and Practice of Concurrency (Roscoe)
• occam
  • Professor Peter Welch's occam tutorial slides and
  • FAQs from his course at the University of Kent
  • occam-pi: (The occam-pi programming language)
• JCSP: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/ofa/jcsp/ (CSP package for Java)

• The Go Programming Language
  • Concurrency

• Nicholas Carriero and David Gelernter. How to Write Parallel Programs: A First Course. MIT Press, © 1990.
  • This text is out of print, but the PDF is available here

• Linda implementation for the Ruby programming language
• About Rinda
  • sadly, the only Wikipedia article I ever contributed to was deleted last year
  • but here it is–as it was–thanks to the Wayback Machine

• 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/

• A functional, concurrent programming language that implements the Actor model of concurrency
• Office website for the Erlang programming language
  • Online documentation
• Tutorial: learn you some Erlang for great good!

• The Chapel Parallel Programming Language

• The Scala Programming Language

• The Clojure Programming Language

Other references will be listed here as necessary.