Course details

Applications of Parallel Computers

PDD Acad. year 2010/2011 Winter semester

Current academic year

Guarantor

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Completion

Examination

Time span

  • 39 hrs lectures

Department

Study literature

Fundamental literature

  • Pacecho, P.: Introduction to Parallel Programming. Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 2011, 392 s., ISBN: 9780123742605   
  • Kirk, D., and Hwu, W.: Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach, Elsevier, 2010, s. 256, ISBN: 978-0-12-381472-2

Syllabus of lectures

  • Parallel computer architectures
  • Shared variable and message-passing programming: OpenMP and MPI.
  • Foster's method of parallelization, performance measures and prediction
  • Parallel linear algebra 1
  • Parallel linear algebra 2
  • Graph partitioning
  • Disrete optimization
  • PDEs
  • N-body problem
  • Parallel and distributed simulation
  • Graphics and visualization 
  • Data and knowledge mining
  • Languages, compilers, libraries, and tools.

Course inclusion in study plans

  • Programme VTI-DR-4, field DVI4, any year of study, Elective
  • Programme VTI-DR-4, field DVI4, any year of study, Elective
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