Parallel and Distributed Programming, 5 credits
Academic year 2022/2023
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Spring 2023, 33%, Campus
Start date: 20 March 2023
End date: 4 June 2023
Application deadline: 17 October 2022
Application code: UU-62007 Application
Language of instruction: English
Location: Uppsala
Selection: Higher education credits in science and engineering (maximum 240 credits)
Registration: 16 February 2023 – 27 March 2023
Entry requirements: 120 credits in science/engineering including Introduction to Scientific Computing or Scientific Computing I. High Performance Programming or Low-level Parallel Programming. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.
Fees:
If you are not a citizen of a European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA) country, or Switzerland, you are required to pay application or tuition fees. Formal exchange students will be exempted from tuition fees, as well as the application fee. Read more about fees.
Application fee: SEK 900
Tuition fee, first semester: SEK 12,083
Tuition fee, total: SEK 12,083
About the course
There is an everlasting demand for increased computer capacity and performance. High performance computers with only one processor are expensive, and there are physical limitations that put an upper limit on the performance. These problems are solved by connecting many cheap standard type processors in one computer, and let them work simultaneously on one task. The amount of performance gained by the use of a multi-core or multi processor computers is strongly dependent on the software algorithms and implementation. In particular, the software must be "parallelised" to run on multiple cores simultaneously.
In this course you will learn how different types of parallel computers are built up and how they work. Parallel algorithms for fundamental computational problems are presented. Important questions related to this are if there are parallelism inherently in a particular algorithm, or if reformulation of the algorithm can increase the parallelism. A good part of the course is hands-on parallel programming using programming models such as MPI (Message Passing Interface).
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Contact
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Box 337, 751 05 UPPSALA
Email: info@it.uu.se
Student counsellor
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