Explores parallelism in programming, emphasizing trade-offs between programmability and performance, and introduces shared memory parallel programming using OpenMP.
Covers the principles of synchronization in parallel computing, focusing on shared memory synchronization and different methods like locks and barriers.
Explores multithreading in computer architecture, focusing on pipeline utilization and performance impact in various techniques, including blocked and fine-grained multithreading.
Covers the basics of parallel programming, including concurrency, forms of parallelism, synchronization, and programming models like PThreads and OpenMP.