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OHJ-4016 Concurrency, 4 cr Concurrency OHJ-4016 2012-01

Lessons

Study type	P1	P2	P3	P4	Summer	Lecture times and places
Lectures Excercises Assignment			2 h/week  2 h/week  10 h/per	+30 h/per		Monday 12 - 14, TB220

Description:

See http://www.cs.tut.fi/kurssit/OHJ-4016/ or http://www.cs.tut.fi/kurssit/OHJ-4010/english/ Main topics of the course are: The need for concurrency, the problems resulting from it, critical section, mutual exclusion, idea of semaphores. Deadlocking, starvation, the conditions of deadlocking and avoidance of deadlock. Complementary knowledge: Differenct kinds of concurrence: virtual and real concurrency, distribution. Monitors, other tools for concurrency: rendes-vous, message passing. Priority inversion problem.

Person responsible:

Hannu-Matti Järvinen
Johannes Koskinen
Mikko Tiusanen

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course