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Topics in Parallel and Distributed Computing
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Topics in Parallel and Distributed Computing

by Sushil K Prasad, Anshul Gupta, Arnold L Rosenberg, Alan Sussman, Charles C Weems
September 2015
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
10h 21m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Chapter 10

Parallel programming illustrated through Conway’s Game of Life

Victor Eijkhout*    * The University of Texas at Austin

Abstract

This chapter introduces a number of basic concepts in parallel programming using the Game of Life as an example. No specific programming systems will be taught here, but this chapter should leave the student with a basic understanding of the fundamental concepts. There are some pen-and-paper exercises.

Keywords

Parallel programming

Parallel architectures

Relevant core courses: The student is supposed to have gone through CS1, with CS2 and DS/A preferred.

National Science Foundation/IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing curriculum topics: All topics have a Bloom classification ...

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ISBN: 9780128039380