CS4204
Concurrency and Multi-Core Architectures
2024-2025
15
7
SCQF level 10
2
Academic year(s): 2024-2025
SCOTCAT credits : 15
ECTS credits : 7
Level : SCQF level 10
Semester: 2
Availability restrictions: Not automatically available to General Degree students
Planned timetable:
This module presents the key concepts of programming multi-core/many-core and other parallel architectures, ranging from the identification and use of parallel patterns; the use of structured parallelism to implement task and data parallelism; key implementation issues, including task identification, granularity, scheduling, threads, garbage collection, task placement, locality; performance monitoring and debugging.
Pre-requisite(s): Before taking this module you must pass CS3052 and pass CS3104
Weekly contact: 2 hr x 11 weeks lectures, 1 hr x 6 weeks tutorial/discussion.
Scheduled learning hours: 28
Guided independent study hours: 122
As used by St Andrews: 3-hour Examination = 40%, Coursework = 60%
Re-assessment: 3-hour Examination = 40%, Coursework = 60%