https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-04-18T14:06:37+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 2026-02-10T19:50:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs377-202651/week4?rev=1770753056&do=diff Week 4 Lecture Notes Critical Sections * Recap from last week: * UPC setup, including ssh keys and script to compile/run * Finish up demo of last two versions of UPC temperature programs * vim questions? tips/advice? * Programming assignment 2 due: next Tue, Feb 17 text/html 2026-02-19T19:50:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs377-202651/week5?rev=1771530623&do=diff Week 5 Programming Assignment 2 * UPC Exercises 1.1 through 1.7 * Due: Tue, Feb 17, 11:59pm (tonight!) * Here's a link: private Lecture Notes Semaphores * Introduced by Edsger Dijkstra in the mid-1960s * Ben-Ari Ch 6 * slides: [PDF] * begin slide 6.1, p. 105 text/html 2026-03-05T19:45:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs377-202651/week7?rev=1772739902&do=diff Week 7 From Semaphores to Monitors Monitors * Marc's Lecture Notes: [PDF] * Ben-Ari Ch 7 * begin slide 146 * Dr. Seuss on Deadlock: * The Zax * Semaphores vs. Monitors Semaphore Monitor text/html 2026-03-26T19:01:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs377-202651/week8?rev=1774551687&do=diff Week 8 Monitors in Java * Java case study (starter code for Assign 4) * this version deadlocks! * you will use two different approaches to fix: * synchronized methods * synchronized code blocks * Obscure Java * shortest compilable Java program? 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'…