CSCI 522

This course is designed for graduate level parallel computing courses. This is not only a course which is linked to real parallel programming software, but also a course which covers many theoretical aspects on architectures, algorithms and applications. This course concentrates on parallel program to be executed not only on special multiprocessor systems or supercomputers, but also on networked workstations (Linux) or PCs using freely available parallel software tools such as Message Passing Interface (MPI) and Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM). Some emerging topics such as cluster computing, grid computing, cloud computing, peer-to-peer computing, as well as multicore systems will be introduced. Three credits.