For this week, take one of the topics in the readings,
find a reference outside our readings talking about that topic
cite your reference
tell us a little about how the two presentations relate to each other
tell us what you have learned about that topic from your readings
Some suggested topics:
1. Spin locks
2. Atomic read/write operations vs the real world
3. Sequentially consistent memory
4. Memory barrier instructions
5. Test and set locks: getAndSet (), compareAndSet ()
6. Monitors, locks, conditions
7. Locked queue
8. Lost wake up events
9. Readers writers locks
10. Reentrant locks
11. Semaphores
12. Threads - creating and running them
13. Thread structure of the JVM and the Java GUI classes
14. Race conditions and deadlocks
15. Writing a concurrent program
a. condition variables
b. producer-consumer problem
c. finding objects
d. active, passive and control objects