PROGRAMA OFICIAL DE POSGRADO 2008/09 Informtica

Master Programme in

Parallel and Distributed Computing

3rd Edition http://www.upv.es/entidades/MCPD/
Distinguished with the Quality Mention from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation since 2003

Objects of the Master

Internet Access

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Lines of the Master

Parallel Computing GRID Technologies Distributed Systems and Highly Available Systems Computational Sciences

Objectives
Training of researchers and independent professionals, with experience in the field defined by the master, Parallel and Distributed Computing, with the ability to carry out research work and/or technology transfer work, and ability to supervise and guide other researchers and/or professionals.

Training of professionals having their scope in industry Training of researchers having their scope within the scientific community

Professional Opportunities:
Toy Industry
Example Project HIPERPLAST
Funded by European Commission Objective: Develop a parallel simulator for the injection process of short-fiber reinforced plastic Designed to work on low-cost parallel platforms (cluster of PCs) Allows the manufacturer to reduce the number of necessary prototypes during the design, thus reducing cost and time

Professional Opportunities:
Medical Applications and Bioinformatics
Example Project HIPERCIR
Funded by European Commission Segmentation and 3D reconstruction of medical images (CAT, MT, US,) Designed to work on a Cluster of PCs with commodity software (Windows OS) Provides similar performance as a high cost equipment with an investment of 20% only

Professional Opportunities:
Building Industry
Example Project HIPERBUILD
3D modelling, analysis and visualization of building structures Allows for realistic simulation of building as large and complex as desired Designed to work on supercomputers or clusters of PCs or workstations Can increase the throughput of the engineering company up to 50%, while reducing constructive costs between 1015%

Professional Opportunities
A growing list of organizations use computer networks, parallel computers, or virtualization techniques*
Financial
Credit Suisse Goldman Sachs JP Morgan Chase Putnam Investments Thomson Financial Bear Stearns Quick Electronics Wall Street Concepts Koscom Daiwa Securities

Banks
Commerzbank Wachovia UFJ Bank Standard Chartered M-Chex Mobile ATM Bank of Tokyo Bank of Bangkok ATM Japan Star Van JRI Card Reuters

Government
Innere Sicherheit NSA Trailblazer USAF SSG AF Surgeon General GSA Navy MOUS US Marine US Census Jackson Medical

Telecom
Nextel MCI Vodafone Sprint Qualcom Odakyu Cable Telstra Deutsche Telekom

ISP/ASP
AOL Savvis Infocom Forlink Matsushita Electronics Albridge Solutions Credit Saison Experian UK Global Exchange

Health
Emory Health Cambridge Health Saint Jude Hospital American College Radiology

*Source: Fujitsu-Siemens

A growing market: 9% of IT*

Computer-aided engineering Automotive Aerospace Scientific research Semiconductor Rendering

Geo sciences

Architectures, clusters, grid

Life sciences

Linux, applications ISV Tendencies

Scalability, Accessibility

Consumer electronics Energy Media and entertainment Pharmaceutical

Finance/ securities Electronic design automation

Finance Defense and security Academia

Product lifecycle management and Informatics

Signal processing

Research

*Source: HP

Opportunities in Research Arena

National Plan for Scientific Research, Technological Development and Innovation Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation Thematic Priorities of National Programme of Information Technologies Distributed and open systems High performance computing and storage Grid computing Thematic Priorities of National Programme of Technology for Services in Information Society e-science; e-learning; e-administration, etc. processor and multiprocessor architecture clusters interconnection networks algorithms and software tools and environments for performance evaluation and scalability of high performance computers applications that use geographically distributed computational resources

Master in Parallel and Distributed Computing

Duration:
90 credits Between 12 and 16 months

Organization
22 credits (complementary training period) 16 credits (compulsory) + 16 credits (optional) 16 credits (specialization) 20 credits (Master thesis)

Students coming from Computer Science Engineer or equivalent degree

Students coming from Computer Science Technical Engineer

Phase 1: Complementary training

period: 22 credits to choose from courses in 2nd cycle

Phase 2: Core of Master

Structure of the Master

Compulsory part: 16 credits of common courses

Phase 2: Core of Master

Optional part: 16 credits to choose among a list of optional courses

Phase 3: Specialization period

16 credits to choose among a list of optional seminars

Master Thesis: 20 credits

Out to Doctoral studies

Out to Profession

Courses from 2nd cycle proposed for students coming from Computer Science Technical Engineer or equivalent
OPERATING SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION ADVANCED ARCHITECTURES COMPUTER ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE ADVANCED DATABASES BIOINFORMATICS PARALLEL COMPUTING DEVELOPMENT OF APPLICATIONS BASED ON MOBILE DEVICES EVALUATION, MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS LANGUAGES AND ENVIRONMENTS FOR PARALLEL PROGRAMMING LOCAL AREA NETWORKS AND INTERCONNEXION NETWORKS DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS SECURITY IN COMPUTER NETWORKS SIGNALS, SYSTEMS AND RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS DATABASE TECHNOLOGY

Compulsory Courses
Concepts and Methods of Parallel Computing (4 credits) Tools for High Performance Computing (4 credits) Fundamentals of Distributed Applications (4 credits) Concepts of Grid Computing (4 credits)

Optional Courses
The student must obtain a minimum of 16 credits to choose among the following optional courses:
Parallel Matrix Algorithms in Engineering (4 credits) Parallel Programming Technology (4 credits) Advanced Programming in Batch-type Grid Environments (3 credits) Security in Distributed Systems (3 credits) Technologies of Distributed Applications (3 credits) Design of Robust Distributed Applications (4 credits) Programming in Service-Oriented Grid Environments (3 credits) High Performance Libraries for Sparse Algebraic Problems (4 credits)

Optional Seminars
Some of the taught by invited Professors funded by companies, the Ministry, etc.

Heterogeneous Parallel Computation (2 credits) Data Management and Visualization in Scientific Computing (2 credits) P2P Systems (2 credits) Parallel Algorithms in Signal Processing (2 credits) Mobile Systems (2 credits) Application of Grid in Life Sciences (2 credits) Designs of Information Retrieval for cooperative environments (2 credits) Advanced Grid Applications (2 credits) . . .

Also possible to take other courses offered by other master programmes in Computer Science (up to 6 credits)

Information
Parallel and Distributed Computing

http://www.upv.es/entidades/MCPD/
Direction and coordination Professor Antonio M. Vidal cpdmaster@posgrado.upv.es
Office 2D05. Building DSIC. Departamento de Sistemas Informticos y Computacin. Universidad Politcnica de Valencia. Tel. 963879356. Ext. 79356