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Parallel computing
FIT3143
Synopsis
Modern computer systems contain parallelism in both hardware and software. This unit covers parallelism in both general purpose and application specific computer architectures and the programming paradigms that allow parallelism to be exploited in software. The unit examines shared memory and message passing paradigms in hardware and software; concurrency, multithreading and synchronicity; parallel, clustered and distributed supercomputing algorithms, languages and software tools and development environments. You will learn to design and develop parallel algorithms in these paradigms, and apply technical writing and presentation to communicate parallel computing.
Sourced from the Monash Handbook 2026.
Quick facts
- Credit points
- 6
- Level
- 3
- Audience
- Undergraduate
- Type
- Coursework
- School
- Faculty of Information Technology
- Handbook year
- 2026
Prerequisites (1)
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Offerings (2)
- Second semesterClayton · ON-CAMPUS / Malaysia · ON-CAMPUS
Listed in 4 areas of study
- Algorithms and softwareCore units
- Computational scienceComputer science electives
- Computational scienceComputer science electives
- Software engineeringSoftware engineering technical electives