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Week 10 Summary Posted 31 Oct 2004 by herman Week 10 continued the topic of simulation. Read more... (0 replies)

Distributed, Event-Driven Simulation Posted 31 Oct 2004 by herman Event-driven simulation gets more interesting when implemented in a network of hosts. Here is some background reading material. Read more... (0 replies)

Simulating Queues and Service Posted 27 Oct 2004 by herman How to give a realistic simulation of customers and queues? Read more... (0 replies)

Event-Driven Simulation Posted 27 Oct 2004 by herman You can program event-driven simulation in Python. Read more... (0 replies)

Time-Stepped Simulation Posted 24 Oct 2004 by herman Our main interest will be event-driven simulation, but it is useful first to look at time-stepped simulation. Read more... (0 replies)

Week 8 and Week 9 summaries Posted 24 Oct 2004 by herman Topics include parallel programming, statistical methods for evaluation, and the beginning of simulation. Read more... (0 replies)

Fifth Homework Posted 19 Oct 2004 by herman Use agenda-style parallel programming, with the Python version of Linda, to do some image processing. Read more... (0 replies)

Statistics for Network Experiments Posted 19 Oct 2004 by herman An important activity in networking is gathering statistics about the network. Read more... (1 reply)

Systolic Arrays, Barrier Synchronization Posted 12 Oct 2004 by herman Two topics introduced on Monday 11 October lecture. Read more... (0 replies)

Fourth Homework Posted 9 Oct 2004 by herman This programming assignment uses Python to illustrate the specialist approach to parallel programming. Read more... (0 replies)

Week 6 and Week 7 Summary Posted 9 Oct 2004 by herman The summary covers three classes only. Read more... (0 replies)

Reading Assignment Posted 2 Oct 2004 by herman Here's what you should be reading during the week 1 October to 8 October. Read more... (0 replies)

Linda in Python Posted 1 Oct 2004 by herman Learn some of the Linda coordination language using Python. Read more... (0 replies)

Parallel Programming Posted 30 Sep 2004 by herman Some reading notes accompany the lectures on parallel programming. Read more... (0 replies)

Week 5 Summary Posted 24 Sep 2004 by herman The week included more about Threads (Locks, Queues), the select() method, the HTTP protocol, and XML. Read more... (0 replies)

Review for First Exam Posted 24 Sep 2004 by herman The weekly summaries give some idea of the material covered, and you can also look at a previous examination. Read more... (0 replies)

Framing Posted 22 Sep 2004 by herman Chapter 3 of the TCP/IP Sockets book introduces ideas for how to constuct messages, including framing data in messages. Read more... (0 replies)

Threads in Python Posted 21 Sep 2004 by herman Use threads in Python to manage concurrency, which is useful for a server that handles multiple clients concurrently. Read more... (0 replies)

Third Homework: due Friday 24 September Posted 20 Sep 2004 by herman This second Python programming homework uses networking. Read more... (0 replies)

Week 3 and Week 4 Summaries Posted 20 Sep 2004 by herman Weeks 3 and 4 of the course finished the introduction to TCP/IP, covered chapters 2 and 4 of the TCP/IP Sockets text, and introduced Python. Read more... (0 replies)

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