Cloud and Concurrent Programming

Course aim

To provide the theoretical and practical knowledge in cloud and concurrent programming.

Course content

The cloud reference Model, cloud standards, cloud development, programming cloud services, programming cloud UI's, testing for cloud basedinfrastructures, security.
Introduction: Definitions of concurrency and parallelism and their need in modern computing systems.
Concurrency theory: The interleaving model of concurrency. The labelled transition system formalism for concurrency. Traces, atomicity, deterministic and non deterministic choice. Properties of concurrent systems. Safety and liveness.
Concurrency practice: Java threads. Low level synchronisation with monitors and semaphores. High level design patterns for concurrent computing. The java.util.concurrent implementation of design patterns: Thread per minute, worker threads, polling and event driven IO, thread pools, joining threads, futures, scheduling, parallel decomposition, fork join, barriers, active objects. Thread safe collections. Android concurrency design patterns
Parallel Programming: Overview of OpenMP for multicore, MPI for clusters and OpenCL for GPUs.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
INFS 1025	Data Driven Web Technologies
COMP 2012	Data Structures Essentials

Students who have completed the UO equivalent version of the above courses (INFT 1032 and COMP 2033) are considered to have also met the prerequisite requirements

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAWSON LAKES
Lecture	2 hours x 13 weeks
Computer Practical	2 hours x 13 weeks
EXTERNAL, MAWSON LAKES, ONLINE
External	N/A x 13 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Examination, Programming exercise, Skills demonstration

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 2)
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