8- List of Textbooks and References :

a- Course Notes :

• Obtained online from the course instructor.
• Lecture room equipped with a data show, white board, and internet connections

b- Required Books (Textbooks) :

1. Grama A., Gupta A., Karypis G., Kumar V. Introduction to Parallel Computing, PEARSON, Addison Wesley, Second Edition, 2003.

c- Recommended Books :

1. Barry Wilkinson, Michael Allen Parallel Programming Techniques and Applications Using Networked Workstations and Parallel Computers 2nd E”, Pearson Prentice Hall © 2005.
2. Haupt R., S. Haupt Practical Genetic Algorithms, Wiley Interscience, A John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004
3. M. Quinn, Parallel Programming in C with MPI and OpenMP, McGraw Hill Higher Education, International Edition, 2003
4. Hennessy, J. L., Patterson, D. A., Computer Architecture, A Quantitative Approach, Third Edition, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2003

d- Periodicals, Web Sites, ..., etc.