Parallel & Distributed Computer Architecture

(3-0-0-3)

CMPE Degree: This course is Not Applicable for the CMPE degree.

EE Degree: This course is Not Applicable for the EE degree.

Lab Hours: 0 supervised lab hours and 0 unsupervised lab hours.

Technical Interest Group(s) / Course Type(s): Computer Systems and Software

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Prerequisites: ECE 6100

Catalog Description

An advanced study of the critical issues and limiting factors in the
design of asynchronous and synchronous parallel and distributed
architectures.

Course Outcomes

Not Applicable

Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs)

Not Applicable

Topical Outline

Introduction
Sequential performance
Parallel speedup, Performance measures, Scalability
Performance versus efficiency
Issues in parallel execution models, Classification

Shared Memory
Introduction
Shared-Bus, Shared-Memory
Directory-Based Shared-Memory

Dataflow
static dataflow and dynamic dataflow

Message Passing

SIMD
ILIAC IV, Connection Machine, MasPar, CM-5, GF11

Systolic Arrays
criteria for systolic system
WARP, iWARP GAPP (image processing)

Interconnection Networks

Parallel Memory Systems

Input/Output Systems