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FIT3143

Faculty of Information Technology

18 September 2017 29 April 2024
Monash University

Undergraduate - Unit

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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LevelUndergraduate
FacultyFaculty of Information Technology
OfferedClayton First semester 2015 (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, languages and software tools and development environments. Students will program in these paradigms.

Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  • explain and analyse parallel computing models;
  • explain and analyse IPC schemes in parallel systems;
  • explain and analyse concurrency schemes in parallel;
  • explain and analyse parallel/vector/GPU architectures;
  • program socket and MPI applications.

Assessment

Examination (3 hours): 50%; In-semester assessment: 50%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:

  • Two hours of lectures
  • One 2-hour laboratory
  • One 1-hour tutorial

(b.) Additional requirements (all students):

  • A minimum of 7 hours independent study per week for completing lab and assignment work, private study and revision.

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Asad Khan

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Computational science
Systems development

Prerequisites

FIT2004

Prohibitions

FIT4001, CSE4333

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/units/fit3143.html