Academic Catalog

CENG577 PARALLEL COMPUTING

Course Code: 5710577
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Computer Engineering
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Prof.Dr. MURAT MANGUOÐLU
Offered Semester: Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Classification of computers and introduction to parallel architectures. Pipelining and vector processing. Organization of data and parallel storage. Design and analysis of parallel algorithms. Performance measures of parallel algorithms. Examples of parallel algorithms. Programming assignments for parallel solution of some problems on the PVM and the Transputer system.