Course pages 2018–19

Concurrent and Distributed Systems

Concurrent Systems

• Lecture 1
• Lecture 2
• Lecture 3
• Lecture 4
• Lecture 5
• Lecture 6
• Lecture 7
• Lecture 8

Distributed Systems

• Lecture 9
• Lecture 10
• Lecture 11
• Lecture 12
• Lecture 13
• Lecture 14
• Lecture 15
• Lecture 16

Corrections/changes to slides after lecture

There are not currently any corrections to the slide decks. However, slides with the individual animation transitions will be published shortly.

Supervision material

• Concurrent and Distributed Systems - supervision questions 1: Semaphores, generalised producer-consumer, and priorities
• Concurrent and Distributed Systems - supervision questions 2: Transactions
• Concurrent and Distributed Systems - supervision questions 3: RPCs and time
• Concurrent and Distributed Systems - supervision questions 4: Transparency, RPC, distributed objects, leadership and replication

Optional additional material

Many of the ideas in concurrent systems can feel quite abstract in the absence of real-world experience. More glibly put, you can't understand a race condition without having debugged one! An introduction to concurrency primitives in Java, as well as several optional practical exercises, can be found here:

• Practical exercises: concurrency in Java

Last year’s course materials are still available.