Covers the basics of parallel programming, including concurrency, forms of parallelism, synchronization, and programming models like PThreads and OpenMP.
Explores the concept of locking for mutual exclusion in OS, covering race conditions, parallelism, atomic instructions, deadlock prevention, and best practices.
Covers the principles of synchronization in parallel computing, focusing on shared memory synchronization and different methods like locks and barriers.
Explores historical perspectives and mechanisms of transactional memory, emphasizing the importance and challenges of its implementation in modern computing systems.
