Objectives
- Recognize and explain races in concurrent programming.
- Apply monitors in concurrent programming with shared memory.
- Build, evaluate and justify distributed systems organized according to the client / server paradigm.
- Describe architectures and coordination algorithms for distributed systems and propose their application in concrete contexts.
Program
- Introduction to concurrent programming: races and mutual exclusion.
- Concurrent programming with monitors: concepts and classic problems.
- Introduction to distributed systems: concepts and architectures.
- Distributed system mechanisms: communication, serialization, names.
- Client / server architecture and remote invocation.
- Coordination algorithms in distributed systems: time and clocks, mutual exclusion, reliable multicast.
Bibliography
- The Art of Multiprocessor Programming. Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit, 2012.
- Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms, 2Ed Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Maarten Van Steen, 2006.
- Java Concurrency in Practice. Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls, Joshua Bloch, 2006
- Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design, 5Ed George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg and Gordon Blair, 2011