CSE 4351/5351

is the introductory course in parallel processing. This page provides download facilities for the PDF lecture notes of B.P. Weems, along with a few useful URLs.

Please note that the texts for Fall 2001 will be:

G.R. Andrews, Foundations of Multithreaded, Parallel and Distributed Programming, Addison-Wesley, 2000.

P.S. Pacheco, Parallel Programming with MPI, Morgan Kaufmann.

The MPI book is optional, but you will definitely need the Andrews book.

If you have a PC running Linux, you will be able to develop your pthreads code there and then execute on the dual-processor Linux systems. Pthreads is usually installed along with RedHat Linux.
MPI, however, is not difficult to install and also allows testing of concurrent programs on a uniprocessor system.

Notes (PDF)

Handouts (PDF)

Related URLs

Last Updated: 8/6/02