PARALLEL COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

Catalog description

This course will introduce the fundamental principles and practices in both parallel architecture and parallel computing. This course will also examine the challenges of parallel hardware design, parallel software design, and the interaction of hardware and software, where the emphasis will be the co-design of hardware and software to optimize parallelism. Topics to be covered include message-passing and shared-memory parallel programming paradigms, parallel programming, shared-memory and distributed memory architectures, scalability challenges, and interconnection networks for parallel computer architectures. The expected background of the students includes knowledge of computer architecture. (3 credits)