Monash University Handbooks 2008

FIT4001 - Parallel and distributed systems

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate Faculty of Information Technology

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2008 (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. 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

Lectures 2hrs/week

Prerequisites

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

Prohibitions

CSE4333

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