Parallel and Concurrent Programming with Java 2

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Java Courses Merge Sort Courses Parallel Programming Courses Concurrent Programming Courses Matrix Multiplication Courses

Course Description

Overview

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

Syllabus

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

Taught by

Olivia Chiu Stone and Barron Stone

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