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COMP509 Parallel and Distributed Computing

Updated: 06 April 2011

Unit Information
Additional Information

Credit Points	6
Offering	Not offered in 2012
Intensive School(s)	None
Supervised Exam	There is a UNE Supervised Examination held at the end of the teaching period in which you are enrolled.
Pre-requisites	AMTH140 and COMP280 or COMP480 or candidature in GradCertCompSc or GradDipCompSc or MCompSc
Co-requisites	None
Restrictions	COMP309
Notes	None
Combined Units	COMP309 - Parallel and Distributed Computing
Coordinator(s)	Neil Dunstan (neil@turing.une.edu.au)
Unit Description	This unit provides an introduction to the area of parallel and distributed computing. Topics include: processes, interprocess communication, multithreaded programming, thread synchronisation, and programming parallel virtual machines (PVM and MPI).
Materials	Text information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Disclaimer	Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.

Assessment

Assessment information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.

Learning Outcomes (LO)

Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:

describe the fundamental paradigms of modern concurrent programming;
describe parallelisation techniques; and
analyse a given application or problem and implement a parallelisation strategy.

Graduate Attributes (GA)

	Attribute	Taught	Assessed	Practised
1	Knowledge of a Discipline Knowledge of the discipline is taught in classes, practised in practical sessions and assessed in assignments and the exam.
2	Communication Skills Communications between concurrent and parallel processes is taught in classes, practised in practical sessions and assessed in assignments and exam.
4	Information Literacy Use of computers for concurrent and parallel programming is taught in class, practised in practical work and assessed in assignments and the exam.
6	Problem Solving Problem solving techniques to develop concurrent and parallel solutions to processing problems are taught in class, practised in practical sessions and assessed in assignments and exams.