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FIT3143

Faculty of Information Technology

18 September 2017 27 April 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

Refer to the specific census and withdrawal dates for the semester(s) in which this unit is offered.

Faculty

Information Technology

Offered

Clayton

  • First semester 2016 (Day)

Malaysia

  • First semester 2016 (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 shared memory and message passing paradigms in 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

At the completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. explain and analyse parallel computing models;
  2. explain and analyse IPC schemes in parallel systems;
  3. explain and analyse concurrency schemes in parallel;
  4. explain and analyse parallel / vector / GPU architectures;
  5. 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 2-3 hours of personal study per one hour of lecture time in order to satisfy the reading, tute, prac and assignment expectations.

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Asad Khan

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

Advanced computer science

Prerequisites

FIT2004
C or C++ programming language

Prohibitions

FIT4001, CSE4333

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

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