Dec 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

COSC 486 - Parallel and Distributed Computing

3 Credits

Fall
Prerequisite(s): COSC 428. This course covers a broad range of topics related to parallel and distributed computing. The course introduces the foundations of parallel computing, including parallel architectures, parallel and distributed programming paradigms, parallel algorithm designs, cloud computing. Data Centers, Clouds, Edge, and Cluster Computing. Performance analyses and evaluation of parallel and distributed systems. Shared memory and distributed systems programming with introduction to OpenMP and message passing.