Course details

Parallel and Distributed Algorithms

PRL Acad. year 2010/2011 Summer semester 5 credits

Current academic year

Guarantor

Hanáček Petr, doc. Dr. Ing. (DITS)

Language of instruction

Czech

Completion

Credit+Examination

Time span

  • 39 hrs lectures
  • 13 hrs projects

Department

Department of Intelligent Systems (UITS)

Study literature

  • Akl, S.: The Design and Analysis of Parallel Algorithms, Prentice-Hall International, ISBN 0-13-200073-3
  • Reif, J: Synthesis of Parallel Algorithms, Morgan Kaufmann, 1993, ISBN:155860135X

Fundamental literature

  • Akl, S.: The Design and Analysis of Parallel Algorithms, Prentice-Hall International, ISBN 0-13-200073-3
  • Jaja, J.: An Introduction to Parallel Algorithms, Addison-Wesley, 1992, ISBN 0-201-54856-9
  • Tvrdík, P.: Parallel Systems and Algorithms, skripta, Praha, Vydavatelství ČVUT 1997.

Syllabus of lectures

  • Introduction, architectures and languages for parallel and distributed processing.
  • Abstract models of parallel computing, PRAM (Parallel Random Access Machine).
  • Distributed and parallel algorithms and their complexity.
  • Interaction between processes, communication, synchronization.
  • Topologie, synchrinous and asynchronous algorithms.
  • Algorithms for parallel sorting.
  • Algorithms for parallel searching.
  • Parallel matrix operations.
  • All prefix sums and their applications.
  • Graph and list algorithms.
  • Synchronization algorithms and tasks.
  • Mechanisms and language constructs for synchronization.
  • Languages for parallel and distributed computing.

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