Online Courses Handbook 2003

12859 (v.2) Computer Structures 402

Area:	School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contact Hours:	5.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	12854 (v.2) Computer Structures 303 or any previous version
Concepts of concurrent process execution. Modelling concurrency; common classes of concurrent algorithms. Granularity and communication. Architectural models of concurrent processing; closely and loosely coupled systems. Control and data flow issues. Network organisational issues; topologies, latency hiding techniques, routing. Performance modelling of concurrent structures. Design issues with event driven systems.