===== SPM 2012-2013 Support material =====

==== Textbooks ==== 
This year we will use: 
  * the "SPM course notes" by M. Danelutto (the new version of the course noted (more syntax fixes, chapter 11 on parallel bulding block added, section 8.5 on vectorization added)  PDF can be found [[http://backus.di.unipi.it/~marcod/SPM1213/spm1213_june052013.pdf|here (A4)]] and [[http://backus.di.unipi.it/~marcod/SPM1213/spm1213_june052013.pdf|here (smaller size, suitable to be read on an ebook)]])
  * parts from the book "Structured Parallel Programming (Patterns for Efficient Computation)" by M. McCool, A. D. Robinson, J. Reinders, Morgan Kaupfmann 2012 (preview available at [[http://books.google.it/books?id=zpaHa5cjLwwC&printsec=frontcover&hl=it#v=onepage&q&f=false|this link]]).
  * paper by John Backus (Turing Award Lecture 1977) on FP ([[http://backus.di.unipi.it/~marcod/SPM1213/backus_turingaward_lecture.pdf|here]])
  * * C/C++ based programming frameworks
    * FastFlow [[http://calvados.di.unipi.it/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=ffnamespace:about|home page]] and [[http://sourceforge.net/projects/mc-fastflow/|source forge home]]
    * To obtain the most recent version of FastFlow, try a <code>svn co https://mc-fastflow.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mc-fastflow</code>


The previous Academic Year material is still available at [[sdpm12support|this link]]