Course Information

Course Information

 Description

This course discusses the design, implementation, and evaluation of parallel computer architectures. Topics include: Shared address space and message passing programming paradigms, interactions between parallel programs and the underlying architecture, design and implementation of small and large-scale shared memory and message passing multiprocessors, issues in network interface design and scalable interconnection networks, clusters of workstations, performance evaluation.

Link to online course catalogue.

Announcements

24-Sep-2014	First class on Thu 25 Sep 2014, 10:00-12:00, Room H208.

 Instructor

Instructor	Office	Email	Office Hours
Angelos Bilas	K-325	b i l a s @ c s d . u o c . g r	By appointment

Schedule

Lecture 1	Lecture 2	Backup Lecture
Tue 10:00-12:00, H208	Thu 10:00-12:00, H208	Fri 10:00-12:00, H206

Reading Material

• Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software Approach. David Culler and J.P. Singh, with Anoop Gupta, Morgan Kaufmann Publishing Co., Menlo Park, CA, 1998.
• Various research publications, as they appear on the course syllabus.

Mark Distribution (Tentative)

The course for the mark will be computed from the assignments, class participation, and a final project.

• Class participation: 20%
• Assignments: 40% = 20% + 10% + 10%
• Project: 40%