Supporting Material

Lecture Notes and Slides

• Wk1 Introduction to the Course (Lectures 1 and 2)
  
• Wk1 Fig. 1.1 as jpg file These figures are in the PowerPoint slides. The jpg versions are made available in case you need another way to view them.
• Wk1 Fig. 1.3 as jpg file
• Wk1 Comparison Table as jpg file
• Wk1 Fig. 1.4 as jpg file
• magazine article entitled The Free Lunch Is Over A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software
• Wk2 Concurrency and Mutual Exclusion (Lectures 3)
• Wk2 Concurrency and Mutual Exclusion (Lectures 4)
• Wk3 Multithreaded Programming Concepts (Lectures 5 and 6)
• Wk3 Text of code for Tie-Breaker, Ticket Taker, and Bakery algorithms (in .rtf format)
• Wk3 Process Management -- the slides on Scheduling
• Wk4 Requirements for Multiprogram Systems
• Wks 4 & 5 Part 1: Design Issues in Multiprogramming
• Wks 4 & 5 Part 2: Design Method for Multiprogramming
• Design Method for Multiprogramming, some diagrams from Gomaa
• Wk6 Process Management -- the slides on Scheduling These were identified earlier as Wk3 but the syllabus calls for them in Wk6. Lecture 12
• RMA Intro handout - pdf Lecture 13
• RMA Part 2, Case Study - pdf Lecture 14
• PDF file on Memory Management for Multiprogramming Issues Topics -- reading assignment
• PDF file on Input/Output for Multiprogramming Issues Topics -- reading assignment
• PDF file on File Systems for Multiprogramming Issues Topics -- reading assignment
• other Multiprogramming Issues Lectures 15 and 16
• Still More Multiprogramming Issues
• Tying Multiprogramming Issues Together
• Security
• Security reading -- this is a large pdf file, about 3,000 KB, with rather small print. You may find it more readable to read it online because Adobe Acrobat Reader will let you rotate the text to be horizontal and will also enlarge for you.

• Overview of SPE -- for class prior to Dr. Williams' guest lecture
• The zip file containing the SPEED modeling tool for Software Performance Engineering. Right click and "Save Target as ..." to ensure download of the zip file rather than execution of it. This demo copy expires March 31, 2005.
  
• The pdf file for the slides Dr. Williams uses in guest lecture on syllabus for Thursday, April 6, 2006.
• The pdf file on Scalability that Dr. Williams mentions near the end of his slides for Thursday, April 6, 2006. You are not responsible for the material in this paper but you or your employer may be interested in it.
• Performance Oriented Design Lectures 19 and 20 (Week of April 11 and 13, 2006)
• Testing Interfaces of Multi-Program Systems class lecture, Powerpoint file
• pdf file of McGregor & Sykes reading from the syllabus. This is for those who do not have the recommended book:
  A Practical Guide to Testing Object-Oriented Software, John D. MacGregor, David A. Sykes, Object Technology Series, Addison-Wesley; ISBN: 0-201-32564-0 br
• Final Exam preparation -- Weaving it all together
• Performance Tuning
• The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing by Peter Deutsch