High-Performance Parallel Computing

Catalog description

Topics in high-performance computing such as the following (1) Parallel Algorithms and Parallel Computation: including programming models (Circuits and PRAMs), complexity analysis, modern parallel platforms and programming libraries; (2) Shared- and Distributed-Memory Parallel Architectures: including cache coherence, Memory consistency, processor synchronization, latency tolerance and hiding; (3) Interconnection Networks: including quantitative measures, topologies, switch architectures, routing strategies; as well as (4) Contemporary and Future HPC Systems.