CS 473 - Parallel Computing

Description:
Major parallel architectures and languages. Parallel programming methodologies and applications. CS 473 and CS 573 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both.

Prerequisites:
Prerequisites: CS 325 and CS 470.

Credits: (4)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

List the historical developments of parallel systems
Describe and apply the elements used in the design of parallel systems
- architectural models
- pipelined systems
- shared memory systems
- models of parallelism
Develop models and apply concepts to existing
- models
- Taxonomy of parallel architectures
- PRAM
- interconnection networks
Describe and apply the elements used in parallel programming
- performance metrics
- scalability
- granularity
- overhead
- mapping
- scheduling
- partitioning
Describe and apply the elements of virtual memory management
- management strategies
- page replacement
- working sets
- demand paging
- page release
Solve parallel programming problems
- matrix operations
- sorting
- graph algorithms
Describe and apply the elements of special parallelizing compilers
Describe and apply the elements of message passing

Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
11/24/10