Course Outline

1. Fundamentals of parallel computation (architectural and application trends, convergence)
2. Performance metrics, and scaling models
3. Bus-based Shared memory multiprocessors (basics, and case studies)
4. Scalable multiprocessors (shared address space, message-passing)
5. Interconnection networks (topologies, routing, flow control)
6. Directory-based Shared memory multiprocessors (basics, and case studies)
7. Latency tolerance (relaxed memory models, explicit communication, multithreading)