Severna Park High – Parallel Computing (STEM)

Mar 2026 · 2nd Semester

0.5sem 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 highend 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...