Covers the course CS206 on Parallelism and Concurrency, including logistics, materials, exercise sessions, labs, exams, and grading criteria.
Introduces the readers-writer lock for handling concurrency in scenarios with frequent reads and occasional updates.
Explores the concept of locking for mutual exclusion in OS, covering race conditions, parallelism, atomic instructions, deadlock prevention, and best practices.
Covers the basics of parallelism, including physical examples, historical context, multicore era, and parallel collections in Scala.
Explores futures as a structured approach to concurrency, simplifying parallel tasks and input-output operations.
