COMPUTER SCIENCE ENGINEERING SEMESTER 8 SYLLABUS

COMPUTER SCIENCE ENGINEERING SEMESTER 8 SYLLABUS

SUBJECTS

CS6801 Multi – Core Architectures and Programming
Elective IV
Elective V
CS6811 Project Work

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CS6801 Multi – Core Architectures and Programming

L T P C
3 0 0 3
OBJECTIVES:
The student should be made to:
Understand the challenges in parallel and multi-threaded programming.
Learn about the various parallel programming paradigms, and solutions.

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UNIT I MULTI-CORE PROCESSORS
Single core to Multi-core architectures – SIMD and MIMD systems – Interconnection networks - Symmetric and Distributed Shared Memory Architectures – Cache coherence - Performance Issues – Parallel program design.

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UNIT II PARALLEL PROGRAM CHALLENGES
Performance – Scalability – Synchronization and data sharing – Data races – Synchronization primitives (mutexes, locks, semaphores, barriers) – deadlocks and livelocks – communication between threads (condition variables, signals, message queues and pipes).

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UNIT III SHARED MEMORY PROGRAMMING WITH OpenMP
OpenMP Execution Model – Memory Model – OpenMP Directives – Work-sharing Constructs - Library functions – Handling Data and Functional Parallelism – Handling Loops - Performance Considerations.

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UNIT IV DISTRIBUTED MEMORY PROGRAMMING WITH MPI
MPI program execution – MPI constructs – libraries – MPI send and receive – Point-to-point and Collective communication – MPI derived datatypes – Performance evaluation.

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UNIT V PARALLEL PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT
Case studies - n-Body solvers – Tree Search – OpenMP and MPI implementations and comparison.
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Peter S. Pacheco, “An Introduction to Parallel Programming”, Morgan-Kauffman/Elsevier, 2011.
2. Darryl Gove, “Multicore Application Programming for Windows, Linux, and Oracle Solaris”, Pearson, 2011 (unit 2)
REFERENCES:
1. Michael J Quinn, “Parallel programming in C with MPI and OpenMP”, Tata McGraw Hill, 2003.
2. Shameem Akhter and Jason Roberts, “Multi-core Programming”, Intel Press, 2006.
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Elective IV

16. CS6008 Human Computer Interaction
17. CS6009 Nano Computing
18. IT6011 Knowledge Management
19. CS6010 Social Network Analysis
REFER ELECTIVE SECTION
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Elective V

20. MG6088 Software Project Management
21. GE6075 Professional Ethics in Engineering
22. CS6011 Natural Language Processing
23. CS6012 Soft Computing
REFER ELECTIVE SECTION
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CS6811 Project Work

L T P C
0 0 12 6
OBJECTIVES:
To develop the ability to solve a specific problem right from its identification and literature review till the successful solution of the same. To train the students in preparing project reports and to face reviews and viva voce examination.
The students in a group of 3 to 4 works on a topic approved by the head of the department under the guidance of a faculty member and prepares a comprehensive project report after completing the work to the satisfaction of the supervisor. The progress of the project is evaluated based on a minimum of three reviews. The review committee may be constituted by the Head of the Department. A project report is required at the end of the semester. The project work is evaluated based on oral presentation and the project report jointly by external and internal examiners constituted by the Head of the Department.
OUTCOMES:
On Completion of the project work students will be in a position to take up any challenging practical problems and find solution by formulating proper methodology.
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