Department of Computer Science
Introduction to Parallel Processing
Spring Semester 2004
Dr. Maury Eggen
Examination One Review
Topics for the first examination include, but are not necessarily limited to,
the following list of topics:
- 1. Parallel problem solving. Parallel algorithm design.
- 2. MPI -- how does it work?
- 3. Collective communication strategies. Gather, scatter, reduce, broadcast
- 4. Tree structured computing.
- 5. Communicators - Intra and intercommunicators.
- 6. SPMD model for distributed computing
- 7. Message passing computing. Details.
- 8. Embarrassingly parallel computations
- 9. Introduction to Python
- 10. Examples, examples, examples.