TIE-51257 Parallel Computing, 5 cr
Additional information
Suitable for postgraduate studies.
Person responsible
Heikki Kultala, Pekka Jääskeläinen
Lessons
| Implementation | Period | Person responsible | Requirements |
| TIE-51257 2018-01 | 1 - 2 |
Pekka Jääskeläinen Matias Koskela Heikki Kultala |
course can be passed with grade 1-2 by completing 75% of the weekly exercises and compulsory lab works. Higher grades can be obtained by completing a written exam and compulsory exercises. |
Learning Outcomes
Students learn to identify parallelism in applications and processor architecture. Students learn to identify different parallel resources in processor and how to exploit parallelism. Students learn the basic programming concepts for homogeneous and heterogeneous computing models.
Content
| Content | Core content | Complementary knowledge | Specialist knowledge |
| 1. | instruction-level parallelism | static and dynamic multi-issue | |
| 2. | data-level parallelism | vector, SIMD, and GPU architectures | |
| 3. | thread-level parallelism | multithreading | |
| 4. | OpenCL, OpenMP | parallel programming concepts | |
| 5. | synchronisation | ||
| 6. | memory hierarchy in parallel systems | data layout, data access types and cache optimizations | parallel memories and conflict-free access |
Instructions for students on how to achieve the learning outcomes
Students can pass the course with grade 1-2 by completing 75% of weekly exercises and lab works. Grade 3 can be obtained by understanding the core content shown with a written exam. Grades 4-5 require understanding of the complementary knowledge shown with written exam. By completing 50% of weekly exercises adds a bonus to written exam.
Assessment scale:
Numerical evaluation scale (0-5)
Study material
| Type | Name | Author | ISBN | URL | Additional information | Examination material |
| Book | Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach | Hennessy and Patterson | 978-0123704900 | No | ||
| Book | Heterogeneous Computing with OpenCL | Gaster, Howes, Kaeli, Mistry, and Schaa | 0-12-405894-9 | No | ||
| Book | Structured Parallel Computing | McCool | 978-0-12-415993-8 | No |
Prerequisites
| Course | Mandatory/Advisable | Description |
| TIE-51200 Tietokoneen arkkitehtuuri | Advisable |
Correspondence of content
There is no equivalence with any other courses