Parallel and Concurrent Programming with Java 2

Take a deeper dive into the key mechanisms for writing concurrent and parallel programs. Discover how to parallelize a sequential program.

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

Conclusion

• Next steps
• Additional resources