The topics to be covered in this course include, but are possibly not limited to, the following list. For additional information, please contact Dr. Eggen.

• Parallel Computers
• Types of Parallel Computers
• shared memory mulitprocessor systems
• message passing multicomputers
• distributed shared memory
• Flynn's taxonomy
• Architecture of parallel computers
• Networked computers
• Message Passing computing
• Basics of message passing
• Workstation clusters
• Evaluating parallel computers
• Debugging
• Ideal parallel computations
• Problem solving strategies
• Partitioning
• divide and conquer
• pipelined computations
• Synchronous computations
• barrier
• Deadlock
• Load balancing and termination detection
• dynamic load balancing
• Algorithms and applications
• numerical algorithms
• Searching and optimization
• sorting
• image processing
• advanced topics

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