3/31 - 4/2
Fundamentals (Chapter 1)
4/7 - 4/9
Performance metrics, and scaling models (Chapter 4)
Performance Metrics Lecture (ppt) (compressed postscript)
Additional Reading
(compressed postscript)
(PDF)
4/14 - 4/16
Bus-based Shared memory multiprocessors (Chapter 5.1 through 5.4 and 5.6)
Snoopy caches Lecture (ppt) (compressed postscript)
4/21 - 4/23
Memory Consistency Models (Chapter 5.3 and 9.2)
Memory Consistency Models Lecture (ppt) (compressed postscript)
4/23 - 4/28
Design of Snoop based MP (Chapter 6.1 through 6.5)
Design of Snoop based MP Lecture (ppt) (compressed postscript)
5/5
Midterm Syllabus
5/7 - 5/14
Scalable multiprocessors (Chapter 7)
Scalable MPP lecture
(ppt) (compressed postscript)
5/19 - 5/26
Interconnection networks (Chapter 10)
(ppt) (compressed postscript)
Interconnection networks (Contd.)
(ppt) (compressed postscript)
5/28
Directory-based Shared memory multiprocessors (Chapter 8)
Week of June 2
Early Final exam
6/2 - 6/4
Advanced Topics (Chapters 9.3)
(ppt) (compressed postscript)
Latency Hiding (Chapters 11.6, 11.7, 11.8)
(ppt) (compressed postscript)
6/11 (Thursday) 2:50 PM to 5:40 PM
Final exam
Syllabus