ECS 201C: Parallel Architectures

Subject
ECS 201C
Title
Parallel Architectures
Status
Active
Effective Term
2020 Winter Quarter
Learning Activities
Lecture - 3.0 hours
Project (Term Project)
Description
Evolution of parallel architectures from special-purpose machines to commodity servers. Emphasis on recent machines and applications that drive them. Not open for credit to students who have completed ECS 250C.
Prerequisites
ECS 201A
Credit Limitation
Not open for credit to students who have completed ECS 250C.
Enrollment Restrictions
Open to Graduate Students in Computer Science only.

Goal
Course seeks to explore the current research issues in parallel processing.

Expanded Course Description

  1. Programming Models
  2. Active Messages
  3. Synchronization
  4. Commodity Components
  5. Shared-memory Multiprocessors
  6. Scientific Applications
  7. Network and Database Applications
  8. Shared Memory Versus Message Passing
  9. User-Level Shared Memory Protocols
  10. Message Co-processors
  11. User-extensible Operating Systems
  12. Network of Workstations
  13. Clusters of Symmetric Multiprocessors-processors

Project
Readings of current research papers. Final paper and presentation critiquing three related readings and extending their area with a small project. Final project involving computer simulation or mathematical analysis.

Assignments
Short-answer questions on each research paper.

Textbook
Course notes

Instructor: F. Chong

Prepared by: F. Chong (January 2003)

Overlap Statement:
This course does not have a significant overlap with any other course.

Course Category

Graduate