Structure of CPS615 - II -- More on Principles of Parallel Programming

• Overview of Sequential and Parallel Computer Architectures

  • Comparison of Architecture of World Wide Web and Parallel Systems (Clusters versus Integrated Systems)

• Elementary discussion of Parallel Computing in Society and why it must obviously work for computers!

• What Features of Applications matter

  • Decomposition, Communication, Irregular, Dynamic ….

• Issues of Scaling

• What sort of software exists and Programming Paradigms

  • Data parallel, Message Passing

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