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Advanced Transactional Memory Programming Course - VT ECE Dept.

Learn principles and practice of Transactional Memory programming, ensuring correctness, consistency, and performance. Ideal for graduate students with prior concurrent programming knowledge. Course materials include textbooks and literature papers.

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Advanced Transactional Memory Programming Course - VT ECE Dept.

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  1. Transactional ProgrammingEE 4984/5984 Sandeep Hans ECE Department Virginia Tech

  2. Who is the instructor? • Sandeep Hans • PhD (Technion, Israel, 2015) • Joined Virginia Tech, Fall 2015 • Works in SSRG group as Post Doctoral Research Associate • Major focus on theoretical foundations of Transactional Memory

  3. Course Schedule • Mondays, Wednesdays, 12:30 – 1:45pm • 261 Durham Hall • Some guest lectures • Dr. Roberto Palmieri (Res Asst Prof, SSRG) • Dr. SebastianoPeluso (Res Asst Prof, SSRG)

  4. Contacts and GTA • Instructor • sandeep.hans@vt.edu, 540-449-5663 • Office: 454 Durham • Office hours: Wednesdays: 3:45-5pm

  5. Course Objectives • Understanding principles and practice of Transactional Memory programming • How to ensure that a TM is correct? • Consistency conditions • How to get good performance? • Progress guarantees

  6. Course structure • Principles first • Practice later

  7. Prerequisites • Graduate standing • Undergraduate OS or Embedded Systems course • Knowledge of basic concurrent programming in Java, or in C/C++ (augmented with a threads package such as PThreads), or in C# • (Can also be achieved otherwise)

  8. Textbooks and papers • Tim Harris, James Larus, Ravi Rajwar, Transactional Memory, 2nd Edition, Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2010 • Recommended: • RachidGuerraoui, Paolo Romano. Transactional Memory. Foundations, Algorithms, Tools, and Applications, Springer, 2015 • RachidGuerraoui and Michal Kapalka. Principles of Transactional Memory, Morgan & Claypool, 2010 • Maurice Herlihy, NirShavit, The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, Revised Reprint, Morgan Kaufmann, 1st edition, 2012 • Papers from literature (Canvas)

  9. Grading (tentative)

  10. Website • Course Website • Canvas (canvas.vt.edu) • Syllabus, lecture slide, homeworks, projects, etc. • Bring lecture slides to class • Discussion forum for discussions • Lectures, projects, etc. • Announcements

  11. Miscellaneous • Honor code policy • VT’s honor code is expected in all phases of course • All work is expected to be the original work of individual student • Special needs, feedback, suggestions? • Talk to instructor • See syllabus in Scholar

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