Seminars on Architectures of Parallel Computers
Semestr: Summer
Range: 2P
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Credits: 4
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Summary:
Overview of architectures of high-performance computers and trends in technologies. Memory coherence and sequential consistency models. Shared-memory architectures: buses and switches, bus-based cache coherence protocols and synchronization mechanisms. Virtual shared memory architectures: distributed cache-coherence protocols. Synchronization mechanisms - barriers. Clusters: fast communication networks and protocols.
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1. Memory coherence and consistency models.
2. Shared memory architectures: fast busses and switches.
3. Shared memory architectures: coherence snooping algorithms.
4. Shared memory architectures: synchronization mechanisms.
6.-8. Virtual Shared memory architectures: cache coherence protocols.
9.-11. Distributed memory architectures: synchronization mechanisms and algorithms.
12.-14. Workstation clusters: fast interconnects and network protocols.
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Literature:
D.E.Culler, et al. Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software Approach. Morgan Kaufmann Publ., 1999, ISBN 1-55860-343-3.