Reading

Course Material

Main textbook is

• Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit: The art of multiprocessor programming, Morgan Kaufmann 2012.

Herlihy and Shavit covers shared memory parallelism. For message passing concurrency and distribution other material is needed. Useful references - among many - are:

• Hagit Attiya, Jennifer Welch: Distributed Computing: Fundamentals, Simulations and Advanced Topics, McGraw-Hill Publishing, 2004
• David Peleg: Distributed Computing: A Locality-Sensitive Approach. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2000
• George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg, Gordon Blair: Distributed Systems, Concepts and Design. Pearson 2012
• Christian Cachin, Rachid Guerraoui, Luis Rodrigues: Reliable and secure Distributed Programming, 2n ed., Springer 2011
• Nancy Lynch: Distributed Algorithms, Morgan Kaufman, 1996

Other material will be made available as the course moves on.