IV112 Project on programming parallel applications

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/5. 5 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Jiří Barnat, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. RNDr. Ivana Černá, CSc. (assistant)
RNDr. Petr Ročkai, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Mojmír Křetínský, CSc.
Department of Computer Science – Faculty of Informatics
Timetable
Mon 14:00–15:50 B003
Prerequisites
A participant is expected to be familiar with concepts of threads and processes, parallelism and is also expected to have some programming skills in C, or C++, or Java.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Students participating the course are organized in groups where they work together and without supervision on a given project. Students are expected to report the status of the work regularly and to consult problems they encounter if necessary. In this course, students will acquire a deeper understanding of principles of parallel systems as well as practical experience in the desing and implementation of parallel (multi-threaded) systems. Individual topics for projects vary significantly. A fully working parallel application must be presented in order to be granted the credit.
Syllabus
  • Initial kick-off meeting; project definition; presentation of problems related to parallelism and tools used to build the project; final discussion.
Literature
  • HERLIHY, Maurice and Nir SHAVIT. The art of multiprocessor programming. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2008, xx, 508. ISBN 9780123705914. info
  • WONG, Henry. Java threads. Edited by Scott Oaks. 3rd ed. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates, 2004, 340 s. ISBN 0596007825. info
  • QUINN, Michael J. Parallel programming in C with MPI and OpenMP. Boston: Higher Education, 2004, xiv, 529. ISBN 0072822562. info
Assessment methods
The course is organized as follows. Students make groups of up to 4 people. In the first two weeks of a turn, students in a group decide about the topic of their project, and have this confirmed by the lecturer. During the term students work on the project and consult problems with the lecturer individually. In the middle of the turn each group is expected to give a small presentation about their project and progress to all the other groups. At the end then all the groups give a final presentation and explain their experimental results. To be given a credit, a group must present 100% functional implementation, appropriate documentation, and present a final report summarizing experience gained.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020.
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