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Transactional Programming EE 4984/5984. Sandeep Hans ECE Department Virginia Tech. Who is the instructor?. Sandeep Hans PhD ( Technion , Israel, 2015) Joined Virginia Tech, Fall 2015 Works in SSRG group as Post Doctoral Research Associate
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Transactional ProgrammingEE 4984/5984 Sandeep Hans ECE Department Virginia Tech
Who is the instructor? • Sandeep Hans • PhD (Technion, Israel, 2015) • Joined Virginia Tech, Fall 2015 • Works in SSRG group as Post Doctoral Research Associate • Major focus on theoretical foundations of Transactional Memory
Course Schedule • Mondays, Wednesdays, 12:30 – 1:45pm • 261 Durham Hall • Some guest lectures • Dr. Roberto Palmieri (Res Asst Prof, SSRG) • Dr. SebastianoPeluso (Res Asst Prof, SSRG)
Contacts and GTA • Instructor • sandeep.hans@vt.edu, 540-449-5663 • Office: 454 Durham • Office hours: Wednesdays: 3:45-5pm
Course Objectives • Understanding principles and practice of Transactional Memory programming • How to ensure that a TM is correct? • Consistency conditions • How to get good performance? • Progress guarantees
Course structure • Principles first • Practice later
Prerequisites • Graduate standing • Undergraduate OS or Embedded Systems course • Knowledge of basic concurrent programming in Java, or in C/C++ (augmented with a threads package such as PThreads), or in C# • (Can also be achieved otherwise)
Textbooks and papers • Tim Harris, James Larus, Ravi Rajwar, Transactional Memory, 2nd Edition, Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2010 • Recommended: • RachidGuerraoui, Paolo Romano. Transactional Memory. Foundations, Algorithms, Tools, and Applications, Springer, 2015 • RachidGuerraoui and Michal Kapalka. Principles of Transactional Memory, Morgan & Claypool, 2010 • Maurice Herlihy, NirShavit, The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, Revised Reprint, Morgan Kaufmann, 1st edition, 2012 • Papers from literature (Canvas)
Website • Course Website • Canvas (canvas.vt.edu) • Syllabus, lecture slide, homeworks, projects, etc. • Bring lecture slides to class • Discussion forum for discussions • Lectures, projects, etc. • Announcements
Miscellaneous • Honor code policy • VT’s honor code is expected in all phases of course • All work is expected to be the original work of individual student • Special needs, feedback, suggestions? • Talk to instructor • See syllabus in Scholar