BÄ°L641 - SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FOR PARALLEL COMPUTER
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FOR PARALLEL COMPUTER | BÄ°L641 | Any Semester/Year | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| Prequisites | ||||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Preparing and/or Presenting Reports Project Design/Management | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Department Responsible (bbm-bologna@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr) | |||||
| Course objective | The aim of this course is to teach parallel computer architectures and parallel programming | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
| |||||
| Course Content | Introduction to parallel computer architecture. Data communication on parallel computer. Program development process. Common problems that require parallel processing and solution types. Parallel programing error detection methods. Event tracking, imaging analysis methods and tools on parallel programs. | |||||
| References | ||||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction and parallel computer architectures |
| Week 2 | The network topologies used in parallel computers |
| Week 3 | The basic concepts used for developing software for parallel computers |
| Week 4 | Message passing programming paradigm and MPI library |
| Week 5 | Topology construction and collective communication functions |
| Week 6 | Project I |
| Week 7 | Implementations of collective communication algorithms |
| Week 8 | Case study |
| Week 9 | Case study (continued) |
| Week 10 | Case study (continued) |
| Week 11 | Project II |
| Week 12 | Research presentations |
| Week 13 | Research presentations |
| Week 14 | Research presentations |
| Week 15 | Final exam preparation |
| Week 16 | Final exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 14 | 10 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 0 | 0 |
| Presentation | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 2 | 25 |
| Seminar | 1 | 15 |
| Midterms | 0 | 0 |
| Final exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 0 | 50 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 0 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 9 | 5 | 45 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 2 | 50 | 100 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Total Workload | 27 | 108 | 237 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. Graduates should have a mastery of computer science as described by the core of the Body of Knowledge. | X | ||||
| 2. Graduates need understanding of a number of recurring themes, such as abstraction, complexity, and evolutionary change, and a set of general principles, such as sharing a common resource, security, and concurrency. | X | ||||
| 3. Graduates of a computer science program need to understand how theory and practice influence each other. | X | ||||
| 4. Graduates need to think at multiple levels of detail and abstraction. | X | ||||
| 5. Students will be able to think critically, creatively and identify problems in their research. | X | ||||
| 6. Graduates should have been involved in at least one substantial project. | X | ||||
| 7. Graduates should realize that the computing field advances at a rapid pace. | X | ||||
| 8. Graduates should conduct research in an ethical and responsible manner. | X | ||||
| 9. Graduates should have good command of technical terms in both Turkish and English. | X | ||||
| 10. Graduates should understand the full range of opportunities available in computing. | X | ||||
| 11. Graduates should understand that computing interacts with many different domains. | X | ||||
| 12. Graduates should develop the knowledge acquired at master level and apply scientific methods in order to solve scientific problems. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest