Meade High – Parallel Computing (STEM)

Mar 2026 · 2nd Semester

This is a one semester Pathway 2 course in the STEM Computer Science and Theoretical Applied Mathematics. This course will prepare students for increasingly popular large-scale computing that takes place in the real world, such as search engines, social networking sites, and scientific computational needs. Parallel computing has historically played a key role in addressing the performance demands of high-end engineering and scientific applications. It has now moved to center stage in light of current hardware trends and device power efficiency limits. All computer systems — embedded, game consoles, laptop, desktop, high-end supercomputers, and large-scale data center clusters—are being built using chips with an increasing number of processor cores, with little or no increase in clock speed per core. Unlike previous generations of hardware evolution, this shift will impact all segments of the IT industry and all areas of Computer Science. This course introduces students to the foundatio