Teaching GuideTerm
Faculty of Computer Science
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Grao en Ciencia e Enxeñaría de Datos
 Subjects
  Parallel Processing
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Chapter 1 - Introduction and previous concepts * The process and sequential program
* Lifecycle of a process
* Threads
* Paralell program
* Usefulness of parallelism
Chapter 2 - Hardware parellelism, hierarchy * Levels of parallelism
* Internal processor parallelism (hidden)
* Processor functionalities (low-level parallelism)
* Processor accessible resources (high-level parallelism)
* Pool of machines (Cluster and Supercomputer)
* Distributed computing
* Specific devices
* State of the art of processors
Chapter 3 - Software parallelism, design and implementation * Flynn taxonomy
* Frameworks and languages for parallelism
* Key concepts
* Paradigms for parallel processing
* Parallel programs analysis
* Parallel programs design
Chapter 4 - Big Data technologies * Data storage
* Resource and execution management
* Batch processing
* Streaming processing
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