FI:PV192 Parallel Technical Systems

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)

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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

there are 37 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display

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.