This course is for PhD students, however other students are welcome too.
In this case however contact the dean office for formalities.
Schedule:
lectures: Wednesday, 9:15-11, D1, room 215
tutorials: no
Basic literature:
some electronic teaching material will be available online, access with a password
Requirements:
In order to pass the course it is necessary to fulfil the following conditions:
pass the final written test
or solve some "take home exam"
The test will check understanding, skills and ability of problem solving.
It will consist of short problems (almost a test question)
that will demand certain creativity.
It is not necessary to remember details of algorithms, protocols, technical manuals, ...
but it will be necessary to understand them.
Goals:
The lecture has two goals:
learn about general issues in parallel computing,
get some skill for designing efficient algorithms.