Technion - Israel Institute of Technology  
236370 - Parallel And Distributed Programming
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Course syllabus is available here - see 2011 updates. Minor changes and additions are possible. Note the HW submission schedule - plan ahead

The course starts with the fundamental aspects of programming "shared-memory" architectures:

  • thread-parallel programming
  • synchronization
  • virtual clocks
  • memory consistency models
  • data race detection
  • data parallel programming
    • backed up by the technologies for practical implementation of these ideas: Java threads and OpenMP (C++/C).

    It then goes on with the fundamentals of programming "distributed memory" architectures:

  • BSP programming model
  • Master-Worker
  • Map-Reduce
    • which are complemented by the management of distributed resources in large-scale computing environments (aka Grids)
  • Condor
    • .

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