FIT3143 · Monash University
Parallel computing
- Credit points
- 6
- Level
- 3
- Workload
- ≈ 12 h / week
- Faculty
- Information Technology
What it covers
Modern computer systems contain parallelism in both hardware and software. This unit covers parallelism in both general purpose and application specific computer architectures and the programming paradigms that allow parallelism to be exploited in software. The unit examines shared memory and message passing paradigms in hardware and software; concurrency, multithreading and synchronicity; parallel, clustered and distributed supercomputing algorithms, languages and software tools and development environments. You will learn to design and develop parallel algorithms in these paradigms, and apply technical writing and presentation to communicate parallel computing.
Assessment
| Task | Type | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Applied Problem Solving Tasks (Quiz) | Quiz / Test | 50% |
| Applied Sessions | Demonstration | 20% |
| Laboratories | Demonstration | 30% |
When and where
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Second semester | Clayton | On-campus |
| Malaysia | On-campus |