COM SCI 133 · CS 133Parallel and Distributed Computing
Computer Science · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Distributed memory and shared memory parallel architectures; asynchronous parallel languages: MPI, Maisie; primitives for parallel computation: specification of parallelism, interprocess communication and synchronization; design of parallel programs for scientific computation and distributed systems.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisites: courses 131, M151B.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
COM SCI 133
- COM SCI 131Programming Languages
- COM SCI 33Introduction to Computer Organization
- COM SCI 32Introduction to Computer Science II
- COM SCI 35LSoftware Construction
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
- COM SCI M151BComputer Systems Architecture
- COM SCI M51ALogic Design of Digital Systems
- EC ENGR M16Logic Design of Digital Systems
2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 10 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.