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ECS 201C PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES (4) III

Lecture: 3 hours

Project: 1 hour

Prerequisite: Course ECS 201A

Grading: Letter; final project paper and presentation (80%), assignments (20%)

Catalog Description:
Evolution of parallel architectures from special-purpose machines to commodity servers.
Emphasis on recent machines and applications that drive them. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 250C.

Goal:
Course seeks to explore the current research issues in parallel processing.

Expanded Course Description:

  1. Programming Models
  2. Active Messages
  3. Synchronization
  4. Commodity Components
  5. Shared-memory Multiprocessors
  6. Scientific Applications
  7. Network and Database Applications
  8. Shared Memory Versus Message Passing
  9. User-Level Shared Memory Protocols
  10. Message Co-processors
  11. User-extensible Operating Systems
  12. Network of Workstations
  13. Clusters of Symmetric Multiprocessors-processors

Project:
Readings of current research papers. Final paper and presentation critiquing three related readings and extending their area with a small project. Final project involving computer simulation or mathematical analysis.

Assignments:
Short-answer questions on each research paper.

Textbook:
Course notes

Instructor: F. Chong

Prepared by: F. Chong (January 2003)

Overlap Statement:
This course does not have a significant overlap with any other course.

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