Sharing Teaching Material for Concurrent Computing

This area is intended to facilitate community collaboration on course material related to Concurrent Computing. Lots of Universities are using Sun's multi-threaded multi-core machine in teaching about Concurrent Programming, and the community is growing. Hopefully this can be a place to share resources. If you already have publicly available content, please feel free to point to it here. If you'd like public space to share your content, please feel free to create pages on this TWiki.

This page is organized by institution, and under each institution please find information about classes, material highlighted to offer, and material used from others. In this way we can make material available and give credit where credit is due.

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Seminar at OOPSLA 2009

Guy Steele hosted a workshop at OOPSLA on Curricula for Concurrency. This workshop was in conjunction with IBM's TJ Watson Research Center. It was held on Monday the 26th at the Fantasia Ballroom from 8:30 am - 5:00pm. You can find out more details at either http://www.oopsla.org/ or http://concurrencypedegogy.ning.com.

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Seminar at ASPLOS 2009

Multicore Programming Education 2009: Workshop on Directions in Multicore Programming Education

Sunday, March 8, 2009, Washington DC, USA (Co-located with ASPLOS 2009)

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Institutional Community Members: Classes, To Share, and Shared from Others

The Australian National University

• Point of contact: Peter Strazdins
• Class Information
  • Concurrent and Distributed Systems
    • Semester 2 2008: Uwe Zimmer (see Assignment 2: server loads on the T2)
    • Semester 2 2007: Taught by Alistair Rendell and Peter Strazdins (see Assignment 2: threading)
  • COMP3320/COMP6464 High Performance Scientific Computation
    • Semester 1 2008: Taught by Alistair Rendell
  • COMP4300/COMP6430 Parallel Systems
    • Semester 1 2009: Taught by Alistair Rendell
  • COMP8320: Multicore Computing
    • Semester 2, 2009: Taught by Peter Strazdins, using a T2!
    • Please contact Peter for any materials not on the web page (codes for lab exercises and assignments, assignment solutiions, exams)
• Material to offer for sharing
  • see above links
• Material adopted from elsewhere

Brown

• Class Information
  • CS176: The Art of Multiprocessor Programming
    • Fall 2007: Taught by Maurice Herlihy
• Material to offer for sharing
  • book: The Art of Multiprocessor Programming by Herlihy & Shavit
• Material adopted from elsewhere

Czech Technical University

• Point of contact:
• Class Information
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

Dartmouth College

• Point of Contact:
• Class Information
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

Dresden University of Technology

• Class Information
  • Foundations of Concurrent and Distributed Systems
    • Summer 2007: Taught by Christof Fetzer
    • Summer 2009: Taught by Christof Fetzer
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

EPFL

• Point of contact: Martin Odersky
• Class Information
  • Selected Topics in Distributed Computing: Parallel Computing
    • 2009: Taught by Rachid Guerraoui
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences

• Point of contact
• Class Information
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

Georgia Institute of Technology

• Class Information
  • Multicore Computing
    • Spring 2007: Taught by David A. Bader
  • Multicore and GPU Programming for Video Games
    • Fall 2007: Taught by Aaron Lanterman, Hsien-Hsin "Sean" Lee, and David A. Bader
  • CSE 6140: Computational Science & Engineering (CSE) Algorithms
    • Fall 2007: Taught by David A. Bader
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

Harvard

• Class Information
  • CS165 Introduction to Information Management
    • Spring 2008: Taught by Margo Seltzer
    • Fall 2006 web page
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

IDC

• Class Information
  • Concurrent Algorithms
    • Spring 2008: Taught by Gadi Taubenfeld
• Material to offer for sharing
  • Textbook: Synchronization Algorithms and Concurrent Programming by Gadi Taubenfeld
  • Power Point Presentations: Companion Website by Gadi Taubenfeld
• Material adopted from elsewhere

KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

• Class Information
  • Computer Architecture will be taught by Jaehyuk Huh
  • Parallel Algorithms will be taught by Otfried Cheong
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology / University of Karlsruhe, Germany

• Point of contact:Victor Pankratius
• Class Information
  • Software Development for Modern, Parallel Platforms taught by Victor Pankratius
  • Multicore Computers and Clusters taught by Victor Pankratius
  • Multicore Programming in Practice: Tools, Models, Languages taught by Victor Pankratius
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

Kasetsart University, Thailand

• Point of contact: Putchong Uthayopas
• Class Information
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

The University of Kent

• Point of contact: Richard Jones
• Class Information
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

The University of Manchester

• Class Information
  • COMP60012 Future Multi-Core Computing
    • Spring 2009: Taught by Mikel Lujan
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

MIT

• Class Information
  • 6.170: Laboratory in Software Engineering
    • Fall 2007: Taught by Martin Rinard & Sivan Toledo
• Material to offer for sharing
  • Project: Anti Chess (Tournament)
• Material adopted from elsewhere

Portland State University

• Class Information
  • CS415/515 Parallel Programming (Fall 07 version)
    • Spring 2009: Taught by Jingke Li
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

Purdue University

• Point of contact: Tony Hosking
• Class Information
  • CS 490M: Multicore Architecture
    • Spring 2008: Taught by Zhiyuan Li
  • CS 390C - Principles of Concurrency and Parallelism
    • Spring 2008: Taught by Suresh Jagannathan & Ananth Grama
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

Queensland University of Technology

• Point of contact:
• Class Information
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

Rice University

• Point of contact: Bill Scherer
• Class Information
  • COMP 422: Introduction to Parallel Computing
    • Spring 2008: Taught by Vivek Sarkar
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

Simon Fraser University

• Class Information
  • CMPT 886: Special Topics in Operating Systems and Computer Architecture
    • Spring 2007: Taught by Sasha Fedorova
  • CMPT 886: Special Topics in Operating Systems and Computer Architecture
    • Spring 2008: Taught by Sasha Fedorova
    • This web site has a homework assignment that teaches students how to use hardware counters on Niagara, an assignment teaching students how to use Simics, and a good collection of papers on multicore computing.
• Material to offer for sharing
  • Bibliography Portal on Multicore Processors
  • Homework Exercise: Using hardware counters on Niagara and Intel Quad-core system. By Alexandra Fedorova
  • Homework Exercise: Teaching students how to use Simics hardware simulator. By Alexandra Fedorova
• Material adopted from elsewhere

Stanford University

• Class Information
  • CS315A: Parallel Computer Architecture & Programming
    • Fall: Taught by Kunle Olukotun
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

SUNY Oswego

• Class Information
  • CS375: Concurrent Programming
    • Fall: Taught by Doug Lea
  • CS445: Computer Networks
    • Spring: Taught by Doug Lea
• Material to offer for sharing
  • Book: Concurrent Programming in Java, 2nd edition by Lea (online supplement)
  • Book: Java Concurrency in Practice by by Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls, Joshua Bloch, Joseph Bowbeer, David Holmes, & Doug Lea
• Material adopted from elsewhere

Technical University of Denmark

• Point of contact: Bernd Dammann
• Class Information
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

Technion

• Class Information
  • Assaf Schuster will be teaching ...
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

Tel Aviv University

• Class Information
  • 0368-3469: The Art of Multiprocessor Programming
    • Spring 2007: Taught by Nir Shavit
• Material to offer for sharing
  • book: The Art of Multiprocessor Programming by Herlihy & Shavit
• Material adopted from elsewhere

U British Columbia

• Point of contact: Mark Greenstreet
• Class Information
  • CpSC 538A: Introduction To Computer Architecture
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

U Copenhagen

• Point of contact: Brian Vinter
• Class Information
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

U Delaware

• Point of contact: John Cavazos
• Class Information
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

U Mass Amherst

• Class Information
  • Spring of 2009:
    • CS 392 Introduction to Software Engineering
    • CS 529 Software Engineering Management Practicum
    • CS 591oo: Object-Oriented Languages and Systems (taught by Yannis Smaragdakis )
• Material to offer for sharing
  • Concurrent programming slides
• Material adopted from elsewhere

UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)

• Class Information
  • Concurrent Computing
    • Spring 2008: Taught by Sergio Rajsbaum
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

U Neuchatel

• Class Information
  • Concurrent Systems
    • Spring 2008: Taught by Pascal Felber
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

UNC Chapel Hill

• Class Information
  • http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/teach/comp737/
    • Spring 2008: Taught by Jim Anderson
    • previous version: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/teach/comp232/
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

U Penn

• Class Information
• • CIS534 -- Multicore Programming and Architectures
  • CIS371 -- Digital Systems Organization (Undergraduate)
    • Spring 2008: Taught by Milo Martin or Amir Roth
  • CIS501 -- Computer Architecture (Graduate)
    • Fall 2008: Taught by Milo Martin or Amir Roth
• Material to offer for sharing
  • Thread Building Blocks (TBB) for SPARC patch

• Material adopted from elsewhere

University Polytechnia Catalonia

• Point of contact: Mateo Valero and Alex Ramirez
• Class Information
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

The University of Sydney

• Point of contact: Bernhard Scholz
• Class Information: from semester 2, 2009, we will teach multi-core programming in several courses including Network Based High Performance Computing COMP5426, Enterprise Scale Software Development COMP5348, Programming Languages and Paradigm COMP3109, Data Systems INFO3504, Operating Systems and Machine Principles COMP2129, Natural Language Processing COMP5046.
• Material to offer for sharing:have a look at the web-pages of these units of study
• Material adopted from elsewhere

UT Austin

• Class Information
  • CS 372 Operating Systems
    • Spring 2008: Taught by Emmett Witchel
  • EE 382N: 10- Parallel Computer Architecture
    • Spring 2008: Taught by Derek Choiu (2005 version)
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

Univ of Utah

• Point of contact:
• Class Information
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

U Victoria, Wellington

• Class Information
  • COMP 310: Concurrent Programming
    • Spring 2009: Taught by Lindsay Groves
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

U Warsaw

• Point of contact: Maciej Szpindler
• Class Information
  • 4010-COPR Introduction to Concurrent Programming
    • Winter 2009: Taught by Maciej Cytowski and Maciej Szpindler
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

U Washington

• Point of contact: Dan Grossman
• Class Information
  • Parallel Algorithms
    • Winter 2008: Taught by Larry Snyder
  • Computer Systems Architecture
    • Winter 2008: Taught by Luis Ceze
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

U Waterloo

• Class Information
  • CS 343 - Concurrent and Parallel Programming
    • Fall & Winter annually: Taught by Peter Buhr
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

• Class Information
  • http://www.cs.vu.nl/~tcs/cm/
    • Taught by Wan Fokkik http://www.few.vu.nl/~wanf/
• Material to offer for sharing
• Material adopted from elsewhere

Additional Resources

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