CSE4333 - Parallel systems

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2007 (Day)

Synopsis

Modern computer systems contain parallelism in both hardware and software. This unit covers parallelism in both general purpose and application specific computer architectures and the programming paradigms that allow parallelism to be exploited in software. This unit examines both shared memory and message passing paradigms in both hardware and software; concurrency, multireading and synchronicity; parallel, clustered and distributed supercomputing models and languages.

Objectives

Modern computer systems contain parallelism in both hardware and software. This unit covers parallelism in both general purpose and application specific computer architectures and the programming paradigms that allow parallelism to be exploited in software. This unit examines both shared memory and message passing paradigms in both hardware and software; concurrency, multireading and synchronicity; parallel, clustered and distributed supercomputing models and languages.

Assessment

Assignments: 100%.

Contact hours

2 hours per week

Prerequisites

CSE2302 and CSE2/3324; in addition students must have completed 24 points of level 3 CSE units, which may include CSE3324 if taken as a prerequisite.