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+Foundations of Concurrent and Distributed Systems Lab: Summer semester 2015.
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+This repository contains 5 programming tasks, with their descriptions, sequential C sources, and test inputs. The tasks are taken from the 7th Marathon of Parallel Programming WSCAD-SSC/SBAC-PAD-2012.
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+Contributors:
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+Dmitrii Kuvaiskii (dmitrii.kuvaiskii@tu-dresden.de)