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DC 323

The document outlines the curriculum for the Parallel & Distributed Computing course (DC-323) in the BS Computer Science program at Punjab University Affiliated Colleges. It covers topics such as asynchronous computation, concurrency control, GPU programming, and performance analysis, with a focus on various programming models and tools. The course requires a prerequisite in Operating Systems and includes recommended textbooks and reference materials.

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DC 323

The document outlines the curriculum for the Parallel & Distributed Computing course (DC-323) in the BS Computer Science program at Punjab University Affiliated Colleges. It covers topics such as asynchronous computation, concurrency control, GPU programming, and performance analysis, with a focus on various programming models and tools. The course requires a prerequisite in Operating Systems and includes recommended textbooks and reference materials.

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Curricula/Syllabi of BS Computer Science for Punjab University Affiliated Colleges

Course Title Parallel & Distributed Computing


Course Code DC-323
Credit Hours 3
Category Domain Core
Prerequisite Operating Systems
Co-Requisite None
Follow-up None
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
Course programming, parallel algorithms & architectures, parallel I/O, performance
Description 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).
Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms, A. S. Tanenbaum and M. V.
Text Book(s)
Steen, Prentice Hall, 2nd Edition, 2007
Reference Distributed and Cloud Computing: Clusters, Grids, Clouds, and the Future
Material Internet, K Hwang, J Dongarra and GC. C. Fox, Elsevier, 1st Ed.

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