MU25018 Seminar in Parallel Computing

Mathematical Institute in Opava
Summer 2026

The course is not taught in Summer 2026

Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. RNDr. Hynek Baran, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Hynek Baran, Ph.D.
Mathematical Institute in Opava
Prerequisites (in Czech)
TYP_STUDIA(N)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Basic principles of parallel programming and grids. Applications.
Syllabus
Thread, process, data sharing.
Multitasking vs. multithreading.
Grids. Job scheduling.
Multithreading in practice. Thread-safe functions.
Synchronisation, deadlocks. Atomic oprarations, locks, semaphores. Messaging.
High performance a grid computing in czech academic institutions.
PBS experiments.
Examples in Maple.
Literature
    required literature
  • user documentation of MetaCentrum VO. URL info
  • uživatelská dokumetantace MetaCentrum VO. URL info
  • Atallah, Mikhail. Algorithms and theory of computations handbook. 1999. ISBN 0-8493-2649-4. info
  • K. O. Geddes, Stephen R. Czapor, G. Labahn. Algorithms for Computer Algebra. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, 1992. ISBN 0-7923-9259-0. info
  • JAJA, J. An Introduction to Parallel Algorithms. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1992. info
    recommended literature
  • IT4Innovations documentation pages. URL info
  • Baran, Hynek. Symbolické výpočty v Maple. Opava, 2015. URL info
  • Heck, André. Introduction to Maple. New York, 1993. ISBN 0-387-97662-0. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Submission of all assigned projects.
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