Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: PRINCIPLES OF PARALLEL PROGRAMMING

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Fundamentals of parallel programming: abstract models of parallel computers, parallel algorithms and data structures, and common parallel programming patterns including task parallelism, undirected and directed synchronization, data parallelism, divide-and-conquer parallelism, and map-reduce. Laboratory assignments will explore these topics through the use of parallel extensions to the Java language. Recommended Prerequisite(s): (COMP 314 or ELEC 322) and (COMP 221 or COMP 320).