CS 7110 -- Parallel Computer Architecture

Spring 2001, TTh 9:35 - 10:55PM

Course Information:

• Instructor: Kishore Ramachandran, Room 217 CoC, rama@cc.gatech.edu, 4-5136, Office Hours (stop by whenever I am around, or by appointment)
• Required reading:
  1. Parallel Computer Architecture, A Hardware/Software Approach, David Culler, J. P. Singh, and Anoop Gupta. Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann, 2000.
  2. Papers from conferences and journals to supplement the textbook
• Location: CCB-53
• Course Outline
• Evaluation: It will be based on class participation, projects, homeworks, and exams. The exact breakdown will be decided in the next couple of days. Stay tuned!
• Schedule of Lectures
• Projects, Homeworks, and Exams
• IF YOU ARE NOT A CS MAJOR PLEASE FILL OUT A FORM AVAILABLE OUTSIDE COC 213 TO GET A COC ACCOUNT
• Additional Information:
• news://{NNTPServer}/git.cc.class.cs7110
  Post items of general class interest to this newsgroup
• Class URL: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2001/cs7110_spring
• Courses in the Systems Area (ppt) (pdf) (compressed postscript)
• Related previous courses
• (CS/EE 6761 - Spring 1998)
• (CS/EE 6760 - Winter 1998)
• The Stampede Cluster System
• Beehive system and papers relating to Beehive
• TASS: A top-down approach to scalability study
• Presentations relevant to the course
  • How can we make parallel computing ubiquitous?
  • The Quest Toward a Zero Overhead Parallel Machine: Myth and Reality (ICPP 95)
  • Architectural Mechanisms for Explicit Communication in Shared Memory Multiprocessors (SC 95)