Cloud and Concurrent Programming
Course Level Undergraduate
Course Level Undergraduate
Area/Catalogue
INFT 3043
Course Level
Undergraduate
Offered Externally
Yes
Note: This offering may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.
Course ID
170522
Unit Value
4.5
University-wide elective course
No
The 2025 timetable is
not yet available.
Course owner
UniSA STEM
To provide the theoretical and practical knowledge in cloud and concurrent programming.
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.
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Subject Area & Catalogue Number | Course Name |
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Group 1
Students must have completed one of the following courses: |
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COMP 2012 | Data Structures Essentials |
COMP 2033 | UO Applied Data Structures |
Group 2
In addition to one course from Group 1, students must have completed one of the following courses: |
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INFT 1032 | UO Data Driven Web Technologies |
INFS 1025 | Data Driven Web Technologies |
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Component | Duration | ||
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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.
Examination, Programming exercise, Skills demonstration
EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 2)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.