The download is zip file that unpacks to the directory
ppcp, whose contents are:
- ppcp/alpaca: contains Alpaca.msi, which installs Alpaca (A lovely parallelism and concurrency analyzer). Main points about Alpaca:
- NOTE: documentation is not included yet
- Requires VS2010 be installed first
- Installs on 32-bit Windows to c:\Program Files\Microsoft Alpaca
- Installs on 64-bit Windows to c:\Program File (x86)\Microsoft Alpaca
- NOTE: presently Alpaca can only analyze 32-bit executables
- The main executable is alpaca.exe (added to PATH by installer)
- Reference assemblies for creating Alpaca Projects (get to them by “Add Reference” in VS2010)
- Microsoft.Concurrency.Taskometer
- Microsoft.Concurrency.UnitTestingFramework
- Microsoft.Concurrency.UnitTesting.Extensions
- ppcp/units/unitN: contains the material for unit N (Unit 0-4 available now, 5-8 later in the fall)
- HTML lecture notes (highlighting main concepts)
- Power point slides
- /src: contains a Visual Studio 2010 Solution with
- Small applications, which are drawn from Parallel Extensions Samples
- Pedagogical examples, usually in an Alpaca Project
Coming soon:
- ppcp/labs: will contain slides describing