Outline of Syllabus
BE5:-Parallel Computing
S.No
Topic
Duration (Hrs)
1
Introduction
02
2
Parallel Computer Architecture
10
3
Interconnection Networks
08
4
Parallel Programming
18
5
Performance Metrics and Benchmarks
06
6
Parallel Algorithms and Applications
16
Lecture =60
Practical =60
Total class =120
BOOKS RECOMMENDED FOR READING AND REFERENCE
MAIN READING
  • Kai Hwang and Zhiwei Xu, "Scalable parallel Computing"
  • Vipin Kumar, Ananth Grama, Anshul Grpta, George Karypis, "Introduction to Parallel Computing, Design and Analysis of Algorithms"
  • Barry Wilkinson and Michael Allen, "Parallel Programming"
SUPPLEMENTARY READING
  • AI Geist, Adam Beguelin, Jack Dongarra, Weicheng Jiang, Robert Manchek and Vaidy Sunderam, "PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine"
  • Rohit Chandra, Ramesh Menon, Leo Dagum, David Kohr, Dror Maydan, and Jeff Mc Donald, "Parallel Programming in Open MP"