Revision as of 13:19, 1 December 2011

Term: Winter 11
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Michael Bader
Time and Place: Tuesday, 9:00-10:30, (MI 02.07.023); first lecture: Oct 25
Audience: Computational Science and Engineering, 1st semester (Module IN2157); Biomedical Computing (elective)
Tutorials: t.b.a. (no compulsory tutorials; there might be a few extra lessons on a voluntary basis)
Exam: written exam
Semesterwochenstunden / ECTS Credits: 2 SWS (2V) / 3 Credits
TUMonline: {{{tumonline}}}

Fundamentals: Models of Computation, Complexity Measures
Sorting: Bubble-Sort, Merge-Sort, Quick-Sort, Median-Algorithms, Lower Bounds, etc.: sorting in parallel
Searching: Hashing, Search Tress, etc.
Arithmetic Problems: parallel prefix computation, parallel matrix and vector operations
Foundations of parallel algorithms and simple models of parallel computation

Lecture Notes and Material

Introduction - Algorithms, Fibonacci example (Oct 25): slides
Sorting (Nov 8, Nov 15, Nov 22): slides (lecture on Nov 15 from 9.00 to 9.45, because of Student General Assembly)
Recurrences (Nov 22, Nov 29): slides
More Sorting (Nov 29): slides
Parallel Algorithms and PRAM (Dec 6): slides

Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein: Introduction to Algorithms; MIT Press
Berman, Paul: Algorithms: Sequential, Parallel, and Distributed; Cengage Learning Emea 2004
Heun: Grundlegende Algorithmen; Vieweg 2000
Sedgewick: Algorithms; Pearson Education
Shackleford, Computing and Algorithms; Addison Wesley Longman
Kleinberg, Tardos: Algorithm Design; Pearson Education

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+; Parallel Scalar Product and Matrix-Vector Multiplication (Dec 6)
+: [http://www5.in.tum.de/lehre/vorlesungen/fundalg/WS11/worksheets/fundalg4.pdf worksheet]
 == Literature ==