ECE 5720 - Parallel Computer Architecture

(crosslisted)
(also CS 5420)

Fall. 4 credits.

Prerequisite: ECE 4750.

Staff.

Principles and trade-offs in the design of parallel architectures. Emphasis is on latency, bandwidth, and synchronization in parallel machines. Case studies illustrate the history and techniques of shared-memory, messagepassing, dataflow, and data-parallel machines. Additional topics include memory consistency models, cache coherence protocols, and interconnection network topologies. Architectural studies presented through lecture and some research papers.