CSCI 251- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 35 pages long!)
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The best 8 quizzes will be taken into account with each counting 2. 25%. They will be short answer, true/false, or multiple choice. May have negative grading to discourage guessing: projects (40%) Each project is worth 10: exams (40%) Each exam is worth 20: homeworks (not graded directly) Main topics: parallelism, concurrency, parallel computer systems, dis- tributed computer systems, parallel programming, concurrent program- ming. Additional topics: principles of computer networks, packet routing, tcp/udp, network security, cloud computing and virtualization: teaching. Wednesday: lecture, review, problem solving, questions, homeworks, quizzes, midterm exam: mycourses. Course material, important dates, schedule, news, events, homework, sam- ple questions, grades, discussions, etc. The objective is to execute tasks faster. Processes are executed simultaneously on parallel computing elements: data parallelism. Data to be processed exhibits parallelism (matrix operations, image pro- cessing) The same task is performed on the same or di erent set/stream of data: instruction parallelism. Execute multiple instructions through pipelining: task parallelism.
