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+## MULTI-core/processor/computer
+
+SMC/SMP/cluster/Grid/Cloud...
+
+multi: shared memory, multi-CPU
+
+UMA-NUMA
+
+multiple spinlock, bus
+
+- Avoid cache thrashing!
+
+- Time sharing, the  art of scheduling
+
+"Gang scheduling" : A gang of related threads are scheduled as a unit, a "gang"
+
+"Computational Graph": ->"A platform for ML"
+
+"Distributed Shared Memory":  Like page table, with indices
+
+
+
+#### Graph computing
+
+relations between Nodes, allocation of resources,...
+
+GraphChi
+
+Speed up executing, space less, locality is good.
+
+And we have alogorithms.
+
+Object-based middleware "**CORBA**"
+
+Based on CORBA. Distributed systems.
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+# W3D2 notes
+
+Edit by: Yichao Zhong
+
+## Process & threads
+
+### how to synchronize?
+
+- lock, mutex, semaphore
+  - mutex means: mutual exclusion.
+  - method 1: lock variable. if lock=0, lock=1 and run; if lock =1,wait til lock=0and then run.
+  - method 2: **Peterson.** Always try to let others run. Run when all else quit the competition.
+
+- CLI/busywaiting/sleepwakeup
+
+#### Producer-Consumer problem 
+
+using semaphore.
+
+```cpp
+void producer(void){
+while(1){
+	//...
+	down(&empty)
+	down(&mutex)
+	//...
+    //order cannot be reversed!
+	up(&mutex)
+	up(&full)
+}
+	
+}
+```
+
+Monitor: solve the problem at language level. There will be only one procedure running at a time.
+
+### process scheduling
+
+#### Memory consistency
+
+**memory barriers:** to protect the code sequences, which might be edit by compiler, tomasulo,  etc..
+
+> A barrier is: Cannot change two code if one is before-barrier and the other is after-barrier.
+
+#### CPU scheduling
+
+- Q: who's next?!
+  - according to priority.
+- Avoiding locks
+  - Read-copy-update
+
+**Scheduling methods:** 
+
+Run Queue(round robin). time-slice as a unit. Tradeoff: context switch
+
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+# Dead Lock
+
+## Conditions
+
+1. Mutual exclusion
+1. Hold and wait
+1. No preemption
+1. Circular wait condition
+
+## Solution
+
+- Don't care!
+- Detection and recovery. Let deadlocks occur, detect them, and take action.
+- Dynamic avoidance by careful resource allocation.
+- Prevention, by structurally negating one of the four required conditions.
+
+### Detection
+
+Banker's algorithm
+
+### Avoiding
+
+- Resource Trajectories
+- In numeric order