[nylug-announce] [Fwd: Parallel programming courses, should interest NYLUG members]

[Ron Guerin]

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Subject: [nylug-talk] Parallel programming courses,	should interest 
NYLUG members
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:00:53 -0500 (EST)
From: A. Murray Gross <magross at its.brooklyn.cuny.edu>
Reply-To: NYLUG Technical Discussion <nylug-talk at nylug.org>
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Folks:

The announcement below was supposed to have been mailed to NYLUG members 
a couple of weeks ago, but an e-mail snafu got in the way . . . . Since
classes begin tomorrow and registrations will only be accepted till the
end of next week, it is probably too late for NYLUG'ers to take 
advantage of these courses this semester, but if these are interesting 
to you and  you send me an e-mail address, we'll try to get you info on 
relevant fall courses as soon as it is available. If you want to grab 
one of these courses this semester, rather than e-mailing one of the 
people listed in the announcement, call the department office at (718) 
951-5657 asap for instructions on how to proceed (and then write to one 
of us for further information on the courses :) ).

Best,

Murray Gross
Brooklyn College


This spring, in connection with a proposed certificate program in 
Parallel and Distributed Programming, Brooklyn College is offering two 
courses that should be of interest to NYLUG members: CIS 744.1, a course 
on programming in distributed and parallel environments, and CIS 705, 
which deals with the architecture and structure of distributed systems.

Both of these courses are graduate level courses that may be applied, by
those who wish to continue, toward either the MS degree or the
proposed certificate program when it is approved (we hope that the
certificate program will be approved by the Fall of 2008). Classes meet
once weekly on the Brooklyn College campus in Brooklyn (easily 
accessible by public transit, approximately 30 minutes from Times Square).

In CIS 744.1, students will write programs using MPI, Mosix, and the 
basic threading and process creation primitives available in Linux and 
Solaris.

Attendees will have access to, and be expected to write code for, a
Linux/Mosix cluster, an MPI cluster, and an 8-processor Sun enterprise
system.  The prerequisites for the course are previous courses in
operating systems and analysis of algorithms, and a working knowledge of
Unix or Linux.

CIS 705 considers topics in distributed systems:  System Architectures;
scaling; processes, threads and code migration;  clients and servers;
methods of communication, RPC, message and stream oriented 
communication; the problem of naming resources in a distributed 
system--flat naming, structured naming, and attribute naming; the 
problems of time and synchronization, logical clocks, mutual exclusion, 
and election algorithms. Prerequisite: CIS 704 or a course in operating 
systems

The Spring semester begins January 26, and registration will be 
permitted as late as the week following the beginning of classes.

For further information, please e-mail Murray Gross
(magross at its.brooklyn.cuny.edu), Prof. Paula Whitlock
(whitlock at its.brooklyn.cuny.edu), or Prof. Dayton Clark
(dayton at brooklyn.cuny.edu).