PV192 Parallel Technical Systems

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 2008
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. Ing. Václav Přenosil, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Ing. Václav Přenosil, CSc.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Timetable
Tue 12:00–13:50 B007
Prerequisites
Non sequece - introduction of the study branche.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
Parallel processing, cooperative calculations, data exchenge, synchronization of the activities, classification of the parallel systems
Syllabus
  • Parallel processing mechanism Parallel systems classification Levels of parallelism Typology of the parallel computers Distributed memory systems Fundamentals of the Message Passing Interface Parallel programmes design
Literature
  • Bull, M.: Writing Parallel Programs Using OpenMP, Version 1.2. EPCC, University of Edinburgh,
  • Geist, A. et al: PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine - A Users' Guide and Tutorial for Networked Parallel
  • Foster, I.: Designing and Building Parallel Programs. Addisson-Wesley, 1995.
  • MacDonald, N.: Writing Message-Passing Parallel Programs with MPI. Course Notes. EPCC, University of Edinburgh, 1998
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Zkouška se skládá ze dvou částí: 1) příklad - návrh komunikačního interfajsu, 2) ústní odpověď na teoretickou otázku z přehledu témat ke zkoušce.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015.
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