2G1506: Programming with Processes
(Programmering med processer)
2003/2004 (period 1)

Programming Environments. Platforms. Related Links

Index

Pthreads links

Pthreads for Windows (pthreads-win32)

MPI links

Developing a MPI Application on Workstations at KTH

Java links

Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition

C tutorials and books:

Tutorials:

Some books (there are plenty of books on C programming)

"The C programming language (ANSI C)" by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie. Thi book is translated to Swedish ("Programmeringsspraket C").

Ulf Bilting och Jan Skansholm. Vägen till C. Studentlitteratur, tredje upplagan, 2000. ISBN: 91-44-01468-6. (in Swedish)

Programming Environments

In order to perform a programming project and tasks of HW sets, you need the following software:

A plain text editor such as emacs, textedit, Notepad, Word Pad, to write a C/Java code.

For concurrent (shared memory) programming with threads:

In Java: Java 2 SDK, standard edition: http://java.sun.com/j2se/
In C/C++: C-compiler (gcc), Pthreads library (typically comes with gcc) under Linux or Solaris.

Pthreads for Windows (pthreads-win32)

For distributed (message passing) programming :

In C with MPI: a MPI implementation such as MPICH from Argonne National Laboratory: http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich/.
In Java with sockets or RMI: Java 2 SDK, standard edition: http://java.sun.com/j2se/

For Project 1: "Controller for the Green elevator":

The Elevators application in Java: http://www.imit.kth.se/courses/2G1506/labs/elevator/

Additional software includes IDE (Integrated Development Environments) for Java or C/C++ such as

Borland JBuilder which helps you to develop and debug your Java code. We recommend to use it, but you do not have to.

Free download of JBuilder Personal is available from http://www.borland.com/jbuilder/personal/
JBuilder Enterprise and the Java 2 SDK SE (incl. API and Docs) are available on CDs from KTH Library, see: http://www.tekdat.kth.se/kthcd/

Borland C++ Builder for Windows -- availabe on the double CD "KTHCD2004 Programmering 2", see http://www.tekdat.kth.se/kthcd/
Microsoft Visul Studio.

Platforms

We expect that most of students will be developing and runing applications on their laptops (if any) and/or desctop PCs and/or workstations available in computer classes at KTH Campus. Contact course stuff if you do not have an access to any computer facilities to work on course assingments.

Working on Workstations at KTH

Working on workstations (directly or via ktelnet) at KTH, you may reach and use software installed under Solaris in the AFS domain of the IMIT department (/afs/it.kth.se/) under the PPS course home directory (PPSHOME) which can be reached through AFS. Use the module command to get the right paths and settings for the course. Put the following lines in your init file (.tcshrc for example) or execute the commands in your shell environment:

module use -append /afs/it.kth.se/misc/courses/gru/2G1915.pps/modules
module add pps

This adds proper environments for Java SDK (v 1.4.*), gcc, pthread, MPICH (version 1.2.*) and the Elevators: paths to binaries, man pages, classes and the elevator.jar.

MPICH at NADA

There are several versions of MPICH installed in the AFS domain of the NADA department. For example, to set MPICH environment (version 1.2), use the following module command:

module add workshop/latest mpich/1.2

See also "Developing a MPI Application on Workstations at KTH"

Last updated: September 9, 2002

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2G1506: Programming with Processes (Programmering med processer) 2003/2004 (period 1)