Scheduled course activities lie within class
schedule E1B, Thursday afternoon 13-17.
The activities are:
Lectures introducing new topics or discussing selected
issues. The lectures are given in English.
All lectures will be held in Auditorium 44, Building 303A at 13-15.
Exercise classes where you solve paper-and-pencil
problems in groups. The exercise classes will take place in
Building 303A, area East (outside the auditorium).
Programming labs where you solve programming
problems at your computers.
Programming labs also take place in
the East area of Building 303A.
Assignment labs where you work on the mandatory
assignments. Same place and time as above.
The contents and other details of each activity is described in the
activity plan.
There are, of course, further activities that you have to carry out on your own:
Studies of textbook and notes as indicated on the
activity plan.
Home-work exercises (non-mandatory) as
indicated on the activity plan. These will typically
be slightly more demanding
exercises that will help you deepen your understanding and
prepare you for the exam.
A few times the homework may be handed in for feedback.
Mandatory assignment work - see below.
Mini labs may be given occationally for you to try out
on your own.
Course Contents
Core Concurrent Programming Topics
These constitute the backbone of the course. They focus on describing
systems with concurrent activities and solving related communication and
synchronization problems at a conceptual level using (pseudo-)
language constructs. The core topics make up the syllabus for the exam.
Supplementary Concurrency Topics
These topics will complement the core topics. They include principles
of using concurrency in software design and touches upon advanced topics
like concurrent data structures.
The schedule of topics is indicated on the
activity plan.
Text Books and Notes
You must obtain the following material:
Gregory R. Andrews:
Foundations of Multithreaded, Parallel, and Distributed
Programming.
Addison-Wesley 2000. ISBN 0-201-35752-6.
You must obtain a copy of this textbook in order to follow the course
and attend the exam. It is available in the campus bookshop
(Polyteknisk Boghandel) for about 450 kr. (students' price).
A note on Basic Concurrency Theory.
It may be
downloaded from DTU Learn.
Further notes, exercises etc. will be freely available online.
The
course material page
will list or link to all essential material for the course.
Course Information
Almost all course information will be given through the
course homepage:
Major course changes and events will also be announced via
DTU Learn.
Teacher
The course is taught by:
Assoc. Prof. Hans Henrik Løvengreen [HHL] (course reponsible)
DTU Compute, Building 322, Room 110.
Tel. 4525 3763, email:
hhlo@dtu.dk
Mandatory Assignments
During the semester, you will be asked to hand in four
mandatory assignments. The assignments are
evaluted pass/no pass.
The assignments will be due every third week according to the
following schedule:
Assignment no.
Set
Due
1
Friday, Sep 13
Wednesday, Sep 25, 23.59
2
Friday, Oct 4
Wednesday, Oct 23, 23.59
3
Friday, Nov 1
Wednesday, Nov 13, 23.59
4
Friday, Nov 22
Friday, Nov 29, 23.59
[The day of the week for the fourth deadline has been corrected.]
The mandatory assignments should be carried out in groups of
2-3 persons. Help for the assignments will be given at selected lab
sessions indicated on the activity plan.
Exam
Three of the four mandatory assignments must be passed in order to
attend the written exam. If you fail any of the first three
assignments, you will be given a chance to resubmit it.
A 4-hourswritten exam
will take place on Monday, December 9, 2024.
Your are (only) allowed to use written reference works for the exam
(ie. all printed material and notes, but no computers).
The course will be evaluted in the 7 step scale based on the exam
performance (only).
