Course Content

• types of parallel hardware
  • multicore and multiprocessor machines

  • clusters

  • graphics processing units (GPUs)

• introduction to major parallel programming packages (APIs for C/C++ and other languages):
  • OpenMP and threads

  • CUDA

  • MPI

  • NOT Hadoop/Spark (highly complex, largely overrated)

• parallel programming in specific fields of application, including
  • image processing

  • machine learning/statistics

  • scientific computing