These study notes were designed for a 3rd year Computer Science course in concurrent programming. They cover the following topics, complete with examples:

• Caches & cache mapping

• Operating systems & process management

• Process scheduling & deadlocks

• The banker's algorithm

• Synchronisation

• Shared memory programming & OpenMP

• Cache coherency & false sharing

• Distributed memory programming with MPI

• Performance

• Combinatorial seach

• Parallel tree search

• Distributed tree search (& its application to alpha-beta pruning)

• Parallel program design

• Termination detection

• Pthreads (briefly covered)

• Parallel architecture

• Parallel hardware

• The Java memory model