Postgraduate Course: Threaded Programming (PGPH11077)

Course Outline
School	School of Physics and Astronomy	College	College of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	After taking this course students should have a good practical understanding of multithreaded programming. They should be competent OpenMP programmers, and have some experience of programming with Java threads. Students should have an appreciation of alternative APIs for multithreaded programming, and their relative merits. The course will cover the following topics: - Basic concepts of shared memory: threads, tasks, shared/private data, synchronisation. - Concepts of OpenMP: parallel regions, shared/private variables, parallel loops, reductions - OpenMP parallel regions and associated clauses - OpenMP worksharing directives, scheduling of parallel loops - OpenMP synchronisation: barriers, critical sections, atomics, locks. - OpenMP tasks - Additional features of OpenMP: nesting, orphaning, threadprivate globals. - Java threads: creating and joining threads, executor services. - Thread synchronisation in Java: mutual exclusion, atomics, barriers, semaphores. - Basic concepts of Posix threads, Boost/C++0x threads, Intel TBB. - Comparison of APIs Lectures will be followed by tutored practical sessions illustrating the key concepts. Students will have the choice of using either C or Fortran in the practical programming sessions on OpenMP.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 22, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 11, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 65 )
Additional Information (Learning and Teaching)	Please contact the School for further information
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	100% Coursework
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No Exam Information

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: - Understand the key concepts of multithreaded programming Have a knowledge of the syntax and semantics of the OpenMP API and the Java threads API. Be able to write a correct OpenMP program in C/C++ or Fortran. Be able to write a correct multithreaded Java program. Understand the key concepts of other threaded APIs.