Locks: Implementing Concurrency Mechanisms

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Explores the significance of concurrency in enhancing system performance and responsiveness, emphasizing the need for synchronization and atomicity to prevent race conditions and non-determinism.

Concurrency Control & Recovery in Databases

Delves into transaction management, concurrency control, and recovery in databases to ensure data integrity and system resilience.

Monitors: Synchronization and Cooperation

Explores monitors as a synchronization construct providing mutual exclusion and cooperation among threads, with examples like the one-place buffer.

Introduction to Concurrency

Covers the basics of concurrency, its importance, and how to write concurrent programs.

Readers-writer Lock

Introduces the readers-writer lock for handling concurrency in scenarios with frequent reads and occasional updates.

The Power of Registers

Covers wait-free implementations of atomic objects, focusing on counters and snapshots, discussing key ideas for enforcing atomicity and wait-freedom.

Concurrency Basics: Threads and Synchronization

Covers the basics of concurrency, focusing on threads and synchronization, including thread joining and challenges of non-deterministic execution.

One-place Buffer: Monitor-based Implementation

Discusses the implementation of a one-place buffer using monitors in a concurrent environment.

Memory Models: Visibility and Semantics

Explains the Java Memory Model and thread start semantics for concurrent programs.

Parallel Programming: Fundamentals

Covers the basics of parallel programming, including exploiting parallelism in algorithms and the importance of avoiding race conditions.