Resources

We will use the Devil Cluster in the Computer Science department. You will need a term account in the CS department. More on that later.

You will need your netID to access the readings.

Threads and concurrency

[Birrell89] An Introduction to Programming with Threads, by Andrew Birrell, January 1989.

The Creation of the UNIX* Operating System
[Ritchie74] The Unix Time-Sharing System (postscript), by Dennis M. Ritchie and Ken Thompson. Communications of the ACM 17(7), July 1974. Also available in pdf.

Midterm solution/discussion