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National Computing Education Accreditation Council

NCEAC

NCEAC.DOC.001-E

Course Log Template

COMPUTER SCIENCE, THE UNIVERSITY OF MIRPURKHAS


INSTITUTION

PROGRAM (S) TO BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (COMPUTER SCIENCE)


BE
EVALUATED
Course Name Parallel and Distributed Computing Cr. Hrs. 3

Catalog Number CC-510


Instructor Name Areeba Bashir Chachar | Teaching Assistant Computer Science

S.N Date Duration Topics Covered Evaluation Signatur


o Instruments e
used
1 Week 1 Introduction to Parallel and Homework
Distributed Computing

Overview of parallel vs. distributed


computing, basic principles,
architecture types

2 Week 2 Asynchronous and Synchronous Homework


Computation/Communication

Synchronous vs. Asynchronous


communication models, examples,
trade-offs, message passing, barriers

3 Week 3 Concurrency Control Reading


Assignment
Race conditions, mutual exclusion,
locks, semaphores, deadlock
prevention, synchronization
primitives

4 Week 4 Fault Tolerance in Parallel Systems Assignment

Techniques for fault detection and


recovery, redundancy, replication,
checkpointing
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5 Week 5 GPU Architecture and Homework
Programming

GPU architecture basics, CUDA


programming, parallelism in GPUs,
GPU memory model, performance
considerations

6 Week 6 Heterogeneity in Parallel Systems Reading


Assignments
Heterogeneous architectures
(CPU+GPU, clusters), handling
diverse resources, resource
management

7 Week 7 Interconnection Topologies Homework

Mesh, torus, tree, hypercube, and


other interconnection topologies, their
implications on communication

8 Week 8 Load Balancing in Parallel Systems Subject-


specific
research
Load balancing strategies, static vs.
dynamic balancing, task partitioning,
workload distribution

9 Week 9 Memory Consistency Model and Assignments


Hierarchies

Cache coherence, consistency models


(Sequential consistency, Relaxed
consistency), memory hierarchies

10 Week 10 Message Passing Interface (MPI) Class Test

MPI basics, point-to-point


communication, collective
communication, MPI libraries,
practical use-cases

11 Week 11 MIMD/SIMD Architectures Assignment

MIMD vs. SIMD, architectures and


programming paradigms, vector
processing, pipelining
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12 Week 12 Multithreaded Programming Assignments

Thread creation, synchronization,


thread-safe programming, shared
memory programming (OpenMP,
pthreads)

13 Week 13 Parallel Algorithms and Report


Architectures Writing

Designing parallel algorithms,


Amdahl's Law, work-efficiency trade-
offs, parallel vs. sequential algorithms

14 Week 14 Parallel I/O and Storage Systems Presentation

Parallel file systems, I/O bottlenecks,


storage systems (HDFS, Ceph),
parallel I/O libraries

15 Week 15 Performance Analysis, Tuning, and Assignments


Power Efficiency

Profiling tools, performance


bottlenecks, optimization techniques,
energy and power considerations

16 Week 16 Programming Models and Report


Scalability Studies Writing

Data parallelism, task parallelism,


process-centric, shared/distributed
memory, scalability, and performance
studies

Instructor Signature ____________________________

Date ____________________________

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CC-510 Parallel and distributed Computing Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite. Operating Systems

Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs).


At the end of the course the students will be able to:

1. Learn about parallel and distributed computers.


2. Write portable programs for parallel or distributed architectures using Message-Passing
Interface (MPI) library
3. Analytical modelling and performance of parallel programs.
4. Analyze complex problems with shared memory programming with openMP.

Course Contents.

Asynchronous/synchronous computation/communication, concurrency control, fault tolerance,


GPU architecture and programming, heterogeneity, interconnection topologies, load balancing,
memory consistency model, memory hierarchies, Message passing interface (MPI),
MIMD/SIMD, multithreaded programming, parallel algorithms & architectures, parallel I/O,
performance analysis and tuning, power, programming models (data parallel, task parallel,
process-centric, shared/distributed memory), scalability and performance studies, scheduling,
storage systems, synchronization, and tools (Cuda, Swift, Globus, Condor, Amazon AWS,
OpenStack, Cilk, gdb, threads, MPICH, OpenMP, Hadoop, FUSE)

Teaching Methodology.

Lectures, Assignments, Practical labs, Semester Project, Presentations

Reference Materials.
1. Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms, A. S. Tanenbaum and M. V. Steen,
Prentice Hall, 2nd Edition.
2. Distributed and Cloud Computing: Clusters, Grids, Clouds, and the Future Internet, K
Hwang, J Dongarra and GC. C. Fox, Elsevier, 1st Ed.

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