Introduction to Distributed, Parallel, and Web-Centric Computing

Catalog description

Provides introduction to distributed, parallel, and web-centric computing, along with enabling technologies (e.g., networking). Introduces distributed and parallel models of computation, distributed and parallel computer architectures, multi-core designs, potential speed-up, threading, synchronization, and multi-core programming, parallel and distributed algorithms, sockets and client-server based software, web programming, accessing databases across the web, and web-security.