https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-04-16T13:58:33+00:00 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2026-01-22T19:51:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs377-202651/top?rev=1769111512&do=diff Parallel Programming CMPU-377 Vassar College, Spring 2026 Syllabus / Course Wiki ---------- Welcome to our course wiki. It will be updated throughout the semester with important course information, so check here regularly. Contact Information text/html 2026-01-21T05:54:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs377-202651/lang-resources?rev=1768974887&do=diff Language Resources Unified Parallel C (UPC) * Berkeley UPC: <http://upc.lbl.gov/> Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) * 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 text/html 2026-01-21T06:00:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs377-202651/tech_ref?rev=1768975208&do=diff Tech Ref Electronic Submission You should make a cs377 directory under your home directory on your CS account, and protect it: $ cd $ mkdir cs377 $ chmod 700 cs377 Your programming assignments should each be saved in a subdirectory named cs377. This makes it easy to use the submit377 script for each individual assignment, as well as keeps your assignments organized. text/html 2026-02-05T02:49:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs377-202651/week3?rev=1770259758&do=diff Week 3 Lecture Notes * Ben-Ari Ch's 1 and 2 * Ben-Ari slides: [PDF] * Formula (number of possible interleavings): * # interleavings = $\Large \frac{(nk)!} {(k!)^n}$ * where n = # processes and k = # steps / process * assumes all n processes have same number of steps (k) text/html 2026-01-22T19:23:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs377-202651/week1?rev=1769109794&do=diff Week 1 * Introductions * Course overview (syllabus) Lecture Notes * Lecture notes: [PDF] * A familiar problem: findMax * Challenge: O(1) parallel max? * it can be done! * with the right assumptions, processors, and disregard for efficiency! text/html 2026-04-02T19:16:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs377-202651/week9?rev=1775157381&do=diff Week 9 Assignment: Dining Java Philosophers * Assign 4 * [PDF] * due: Tue, Mar 31, 11:59pm Channels (cont'd) * CSP, Occam, and Golang! * Peter Welch's slides introducing CSP and occam-pi (but we will use Go this semester!) * Occam-pi Lecture Notes * text/html 2026-03-03T18:34:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs377-202651/zax?rev=1772562862&do=diff Dr. Seuss on Deadlock The Zax by Dr. Seuss From The Sneetches and Other Stories Copyright 1961 by Theodor S. Geisel and Audrey S. Geisel, renewed 1989. Here's a clip One day, making tracks In the prairie of Prax, Came a North-Going Zax And a South-Going Zax. And it happened that both of them came to a place Where they bumped. There they stood. Foot to foot. Face to face. "Look here, now!" the North-Going Zax said, "I say! You are blocking my path. You are right in my way. I'…