FIT4001 - Parallel and distributed systems

Offered

Not offered in 2007

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. The unit examines both shared memory and message passing paradigms in both hardware and software; concurrency, multithreading and synchronicity; parallel, clustered and distributed supercomputing models and languages. Students will program in these paradigms.

Assessment

Assignments 100%

Contact hours

2 hours of lectures per week

Prerequisites

FIT2022, or CSE2302 and CSE2/3324; in addition students must have completed 24 points of level 3 units

Prohibitions

CSE4333