The course is aimed at providing students with a comprehensive vision of the foundations of concurrent and distributed programming. The main focus of the lectures is on system models and on different types of frameworks intended to support the development of concurrent systems at different abstraction levels and on different underlying platforms.

Students will acquire the basic skills to participate in the design, implementation and integration of concurrent and distributed software systems, possibly made of heterogeneous components.

Prerequisites: knowledge of Operating Systems basics, and mastering of Java and C/C++.

-  Dates for exams in the 2015 Summer Session - Students are required to register through the Exam Sign-in Portal at least two days before the exam date.

1st test	2nd test	3rd test	September test
Tue 16/06/2015 A13 h.14:30	Tue 07/07/2015   Fri 10/07/2015 A13 h.14:30             Lab Blu h.14:00	Tue 28/07/2015 A13 h.14:30	Fri 18/09/2015 C32 h.14:30

 

First lecture on Mon Sep. 29th, 2014

Mon. 11:30-13:30 ADInform1; Tue. 13:30-15:30 ADInform1; Thu. 15:30-17:30 ADInform1

A detailed description is available via the record of lessons (see the left menu item).
Hereafter, a cathegorized list of topics can be interactively explored.

The final test is organized as follows:

a)   development of a project
b)   oral exam (possibly with written exercises).

The main reference material is represented by class notes.
All the course contents are covered within the textbooks and other material reported hereafter. These references can also be taken as suggestions for in-depth discussions on class topics.

Books:

T1 - Title        Operating System Concepts 9th ed.          Authors   Abraham Silberschatz, Peter B. Galvin, Greg Gagne          Pub.        Wiley          ISBN       9781118093757          Notes:     A classical resource on OSs,                        discussing synchronization problems as well.

T2 - Title        Distributed Systems - Concepts and Design 5th ed.          Authors   George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg, Gordon Blair          Pub.        Addison-Wesley          ISBN10    0132143011          Notes:     A comprehensive overview of distributed systems,                        addressing both theoretical and architectural issues.

T3 - Title        Programmazione concorrente e distribuita (in Italian)          Authors   Paolo Ancilotti, Maurelio Boari          Pub.        McGrow Hill          ISBN       9788838663581          Notes:     A solid reference on concurrent programming concepts.

Classwork material: - CW01 (data races, ThreadLocal, AtomicInteger, Peterson) - CW02 (bounded buffer with condition variables and semaphores) - CW03 (task executors, thread pooling, futures) - CW04 (periodic task scheduler, benchmarking) - CW05 (custom synchronizer, unit testing) - CW06 (RMI example) - CW07 (basic use of Servlets) - CW08 (EJB invoked by a Servlet); CW08_1 (with explicit lookup). - CW09 (JMS communication)

Misc:  S1/2/3/4 - Slides on related topics, available on the web: Generics, Nested classes, JCF, and JUnit  W1 - Tutorial on Java High Level Concurrency Objects (not all details have been mentioned at lesson)  W2 - Online paper on issues in Java benchmarking  C1 - Pseudocode for a Bounded Buffer solution with asynchronous message passing.  W3 - Tutorial on MPI (from Lawrence Livermore National Lab; here, another nice one).  W4 - Tutorial on Java RMI (for "general" distributed objects: Java IDL)  S5 - Slides (commercial-style presentation) on Akka and the related Actor model.)  W5 - Tutorial on Java EE - massive official document: only Servlets (no asynch mode), EJBs, and JMS are in our syllabus

 The following web references can be useful for practical programming.


 L1 - NetBeans IDE

 L2 - Eclipse IDE

 L3 - MPI home, Open MPI

 L4 - Akka






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