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CISC *7340X Parallel and Distributed Systems
(Prior to Fall 2010, this course was known as CIS 744.
The information below might still reflect the old course numbers. Bracketed numbers, if any, are the old course numbers. Learn more...)
37½ hours plus conference and independent work; 3 credits
A survey of the applications and implementations of parallelism in existing and proposed computing systems. Flynn's classification of computers. Multiprocessor systems, array processors, vector machines, computer clusters and web-computing. Languages for parallel and distributed systems. Operating system issues. Notations expressing concurrency. The semantics of concurrency. Verification rules. Standard problems.
Prerequisite: Computer and Information Science 7100X [701X] and either 7310X [704X] or a course in operating systems.
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