CMSC714

High Performance Computing Systems

Prerequisite: CMSC411 and CMSC412; or permission of instructor. Slected topics in high-performance systems, including contemporary architectures, interconnection topologies, shared memory and message-passing systems, multi-threaded kernels, latency avoidance and hiding techniques, methods for data and workload partitioning performance profiling, debugging.

Spring 2026

Alan Sussman

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Average rating: 5.00

Spring 2025

Alan Sussman

2 reviews
Average rating: 5.00

Past Semesters

Alan Sussman

2 reviews
Average rating: 5.00

Alan Sussman

2 reviews
Average rating: 5.00

Abhinav Bhatele

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Average rating: N/A

Jeffrey Hollingsworth

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Include P/F semesters During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 3.51 between 206 students*

A-: 9.22%

A: 48.54%

A+: 9.71%

B-: 1.46%

B: 16.5%

B+: 1.46%

C: 0.97%

W: 5.34%

other: 6.8%

* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.