Concordia University

• COMP 426

• CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COMP 426 FALL 2019 MULTICORE PROGRAMMING INSTRUCTOR Name: R. Jayakumar Office: EV 3.151 Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 16:00 to 17:00 Phone: 848-2424 ext. 3011 E-mail: [email protected] COURSE OBJECTIVES AND PLAN The objective of this course is to introduce some of the essential concepts, methodologies and practices of multicore programming. The course will cover the following. • Multicore Architecture and Programming: Shared-memory parallel programming concepts for multicore architectures. Intel Threading Building Block (TBB) programming for homogeneous multicore processors. CUDA programming for massively parallel computation. Heterogeneous multicore programming using OpenCL. • Patterns for Parallel Programming: Concurrency in parallel programs. Patterns for finding concurrency and patterns for algorithm struct