Parallel & Distributed Computer Architecture

This course is no longer offered

(3-0-0-3)

CMPE Degree: This course is N/A for the CMPE degree.

EE Degree: This course is N/A for the EE degree.

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

Technical Interest Groups / Course Categories: 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.

Textbook(s)

Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware Software Approach

Course Outcomes

Not Applicable

Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs)

Not Applicable

Topic List

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