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
Course Coordinator:
Prerequisites: ECE 6100
Catalog Description
An advanced study of the critical issues and limiting factors in thedesign 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