COM SCI 233A · CS 233AParallel Programming
Computer Science · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Mutual exclusion and resource allocation in distributed systems; primitives for parallel computation: specification of parallelism, interprocess communication and synchronization, atomic actions, binary and multiway rendezvous; synchronous and asynchronous languages: CSP, Ada, Linda, Maisie, UC, and others; introduction to parallel program verification.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 111, 131.
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 233A
- COM SCI 111Operating Systems Principles
- COM SCI 32Introduction to Computer Science II
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
- COM SCI 131Programming Languages
- COM SCI 33Introduction to Computer Organization
- COM SCI 35LSoftware Construction
2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 11 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
COM SCI 233A
- COM SCI 233BVerification of Concurrent Programs
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.