Introductory Lectures on Parallel-Computing

This CD contains eight lectures focusing on programming languages, algorithms, and other research topics in the general area of parallel computing. Also included are additional materials such as animations, videos, programs, and software, including the code for building the Parallaxis-III compiler.Lectures on Parallel Programming Languages: Programming in Parallaxis III, Introduction to NESL, Data Parallel Programming Using MPL (with code of the programming examples), Data-parallel Programming in C*, Lectures on Parallel Algorithms, Computing Connected Components in Parallel, Data-Parallel Algorithms in Parallaxis * Research Topics: The Role of Randomness in the Design of Parallel Architectures, Parallel File Systems