CSC 578 - Study of Parallel Computation

Admission to the MS in CSIS program; CSC 375 with a grade of B (3.0) or better or CSC 500 or pass on department programming proficiency test. (3)

Motivation for and applications of parallel processing. Parallel processing architectures, including physical organization and comparisons thereof. Design and implementation of parallel algorithms. Performance analysis of parallel algorithms. Programming using the message-passing and shared-memory paradigms. Not open to students with credit forCSC 478. Graded ABCDE/Y