Topic

No. of hours

Lecture

Tutorial/Practical

The development of Supercomputers: A review of conventional machines, Hardware improvements, Software: improvements, clock cycle limitations, Hardware vs. software, Grand challenge problems(Part I).

3

3

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The development of Supercomputers: A review of conventional machines, Hardware improvements, Software: improvements, clock cycle limitations, Hardware vs. software, Grand challenge problems(Part II).

6

3

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new architecture, parallel architecture, parallel algorithm, parallel language, parallel compiler, parallel operating systems, parallel programming..(Part I).

3

3

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new architecture, parallel architecture, parallel algorithm, parallel language, parallel compiler, parallel operating systems, parallel programming.(PartII).

3

3

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Introductory survey of supercomputers: Definition of a supercomputer, Number of processors, Peak speeds, Characteristics of supercomputers, Performance Evaluation.

3

3

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Introductory survey of supercomputers: Definition of a supercomputer, Number of processors, Peak speeds, Characteristics of supercomputers, Performance Evaluation, Flynn's Taxonomy and High-level taxonomy(Part II).

3

3

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Introduction to UNIX, Internet, telecommunication and Computer ethics.).(Part I).

3

3

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 Introduction to UNIX, Internet, telecommunication and Computer ethics.). (Part II).

3

3

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Programming on Pipelined Vector machines. Programming on shared-memory machines (Multimax)(Part I).

3

3

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Programming on Pipelined Vector machines. Programming on shared-memory machines (Multimax)(Part II).

3

3

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Programming on Pipelined Vector machines.

3

3

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Programming on distributed-memory machines.

3

3

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 Parallel Algorithm Development.

3

3

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 - Induction of decision trees in ID3.

- Recent work in tuning rule sets.

3

3

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