Parallel Computing (IT 803 (D))-Information Technology (VIII) | RGPV

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• Syllabus

• Syllabus - Parallel Computing (IT 803 (D))

• Unit I - Introduction

• Need for Parallelism
• Forms of Parallelism
• Moore's Law and Multi-cores
• Fundamentals of Parallel Computers
• Types of Architectures
• Performance Issues

• Unit II - Large Cache Design

• Types of Caches
• Cache Coherence Protocols
• Cache Access
• Inclusion and Exclusion
• Transactional Memory

• Unit III - Graphics Processing Unit

• GPUs as Parallel Computers
• Architecture of a modern GPU
• Evolution of Graphics Pipelines
• GPGPUs and Scalable GPUs
• Future Systems
• Vector Addition and Applications of GPU

• Unit IV - Introduction to Parallel Programming

• Strategies, Mechanism, Performance theory
• Parallel Programming Patterns

• Unit V - Parallel Programming Languages

• Distributed Memory Programming with MPI
• Shared Memory Programming with Pthreads
• Shared memory programming with Open MP
• Parallel programming in CUDA C