Content owner

Tampere University

Extent

5 cr

Course dates

30/8/2021 - 12/12/2021

Application period

4/8/2021 - 16/8/2021

Fees

75.00 € (15 €/cr)

Campus

Hervanta Campus

City

Tampere

Faculty or School

Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences

Language of instruction

English

Code

COMP.CE.350

Study fields

Data Processing and Information Technology

Mode of study

Independent studies

Study level

Advanced studies

Parallel Computing, 5, cr

Code: COMP.CE.350

Language of instruction: English

Description

Contents

Core content

instruction-level parallelism
data-level parallelism
thread-level parallelism
OpenCL, OpenMP
synchronisation
memory hierarchy in parallel systems

Complementary knowledge

static and dynamic multi-issue
vector, SIMD, and GPU architectures
multithreading
parallel programming concepts
data layout, data access types and cache optimizations

Specialist knowledge

basics of compiler-driven parallelization

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Material

Type: Book
Name: Structured Parallel Computing
Author: McCool
Exam material: No
ISBN: 978-0-12-415993-8
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780124159938
Language: English

Material

Type: Book
Name: Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach
Author: Hennessy and Patterson
Exam material: No
ISBN: 978-0123704900
URL: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ttyk/detail.action?docID=10344436
Language: Suomi

Material

Type: Book
Name: Heterogeneous Computing with OpenCL
Author: Gaster, Howes, Kaeli, Mistry, and Schaa
Exam material: No
ISBN: 0-12-405894-9
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780124058941
Language: English

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