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A parallel processing course for undergraduates

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SIGCSE '89: Proceedings of the twentieth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

Pages 170 - 173

https://doi.org/10.1145/65293.71209

Published: 01 February 1989 Publication History

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We argue that a parallel processing course should be offered to undergraduate computer science majors. A major component of such a course should be a series of programming laboratories where the student can investigate the strengths and weaknesses of different parallel architectures. The student should design and debug parallel algorithms on the different parallel models.

We propose a cost effective solution to the teaching of the course which uses simulators and Transputer-based parallel accelerators in a personal computer or workstation environment.

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SIGCSE '89: Proceedings of the twentieth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

February 1989

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ISBN:0897912985

DOI:10.1145/65293

Editors:
Robert A. Barrett
Indiana Univ.:8NPurdue Univ. at Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne
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Indiana Univ.-8NPurdue Univ. at Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 21, Issue 1
Feb. 1989
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ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/65294
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