CS636A: Analysis Of Concurrent Programs

Course Instructor
Dr. Swarnendu Biswas
Course Description

This course will focus on the challenges in developing correct and scalable concurrent programs. We will discuss the types of errors that we make while writing concurrent programs, and techniques and tools to debug them. We will learn about techniques and abstractions that help write correct concurrent programs, for example, synchronization primitives and transactional memory. We will also discuss testing of concurrent programs, and ideas to avoid common performance bottlenecks.

The course will include programming assignments and a course project.