Parallel and Concurrent Programming with Java 2

Description

In this course, you will learn:

• Learn all about synchronization, thread pools, asynchronous tasks, evaluating parallel performance, designing parallel programs, and more.
• Upon wrapping up this course, you'll have a solid understanding of how to parallelize a sequential program.

Syllabus:

• Introduction
• Learn parallel programming basics
• What you should know
• Exercise Files
   

1. Synchronization

• Condition variable
• Condition variable: Java demo
• Producer–consumer
• Producer–consumer: Java demo
• Semaphore
• Semaphore: Java demo
   

2. Barriers

• Race condition
• Race condition: Java demo
• Barrier
• Barrier: Java demo
• CountDownLatch: Java demo
   

3. Asynchronous Tasks

• Computational graph
• Thread pool
• Thread pool: Java demo
• Future
• Future: Java demo
• Divide and conquer
• Divide and conquer: Java demo
   

4. Evaluating Parallel Performance

• Speedup, latency, and throughput
• Amdahl's law
• Measure speedup
• Measure speedup: Java demo
   

5. Designing Parallel Programs

• Partitioning
• Communication
• Agglomeration
• Mapping
   

6. Challenge Problems

• Welcome to the challenges
• Challenge: Matrix multiply in Java
• Solution: Matrix multiply in Java
• Challenge: Merge sort in Java
• Solution: Merge sort in Java
• Challenge: Download images in Java
• Solution: Download images in Java

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