The statement "Let’s buy a four-core processor to carry out the work four times faster" is ridiculous and misleading. This is common knowledge toanyone who understands how to build parallel systems, integrate cores, processors, and computers in a working system and program a system in such a way that the programs perform in a more efficient way. To make you one of them, during this course we will familiarize you with multi-threaded programming, the programming of general purpose graphics processing units with the Open CL library, with MPI standard for programming distributed system, with grid computing, and cloud computing.
Homework assignments for the course are required and are being assessed. Every week students get a short assignment from the material presented during lectures. To get a positive grade from the homework assignments you need to successfully complete at least 80% of short assignments. Short assignments represent one-third of the final grade. Second-third is obtained from parallelization of more comprehensive algorithm on two different parallel platforms. The last third of the grade is obtained on the oral exam.
