ECE 757 Assignments

Homework Assignments

• Homework #1 Assigned: 2/18/03
• Homework #2 Assigned: 2/27/03 Solutions TA_Solutions
• Homework #3 Assigned: 4/10/03 Solutions TA_Solutions

Project

• Project Assignment. Due: 5/9/03

Lecture Notes

• Lecture 1: Introduction
• Lecture 2: Parallel Programming
• Lecture 3: Programming For Performance
• Lecture 4: Scaling and Workload Characterization
• Lecture 5: Symmetric Multiprocessors -- Cache Coherence
• Lecture 6: Symmetric Multiprocessors -- Sequential Consistency & Synchronization
• Lecture 7: SMP Design Details
• Lecture 8: SMP Case Studies
• Lecture 9: Scalable Multiprocessors
• Lecture 10: Scalable MP Case Studies
• Lecture 11: DSM -- Directory Cache Coherence
• Lecture 12: DSM -- Case Studies
• Lecture 13: Consistency Models
• Lecture 14: COMA & Shared VM
• Lecture 15: Latency Tolerance
• Lecture 16: Multithreading -- HEP
• Lecture 17: Interconnection Networks
• Lecture 18: SIMD Computers

Assigned Readings

• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
  • Barroso, Gharachorloo, and Bugnion. "Memory System Characterization of Commercial Workloads," Proc. International Symposium on Computer Architecture, June 1998.
• Chapter 5
  • Lamport. "How to Make a Multiprocessor Computer that Correctly Executes Multiprocess Programs," IEEE Tran. on Computers, September 1979, pp. 690-691. *
• Chapter 6
  • Charlesworth. "Starfire: Extending the SMP Envelope," IEEE Micro, January/February 1998, pp. 39-49
  • Barroso et al. "Piranha: A Scalable Architecture Based on Single Chip Multiprocessing", Proc. 27th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, June 2000
• Chapter 7
  • Scott. "Synchronization and Communication in the T3E Multiprocessor," Proceedings of International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, pages 26-36, October 1996
• Chapter 8
  • Laudon and Lenoski. "The SGI Origin: A ccNUMA Highly Scalable Server," In Proceedings of International Symposium on Computer Architecture, pages 241-251, June 1997
  • Adve and Gharachorloo. "Shared Memory Consistency Models: A Tutorial," IEEE Computer, 29(12):66-76, December 1996
  • IBM Power4 System Architecture
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 11
  • Hagersten, Landin, and Haridi. "DDM: A Cache-Only Memory Architecture", IEEE Computer, September 1992 pp. 44-54 *
  • Li and Hudak. "Memory Coherence in Shared Virtual Memory Systems," ACM Tran. on Computer Systems, November 1989, pp. 321-359 *
  • Smith. "Architecture and Applications of the HEP Multiprocessor Computer System," SPIE Real Time Signal Processing IV, 1981, pp. 241-248 *
• Chapter 10
• SIMD
  • Kuck and Stokes. "The Burroughs Scientific Processor (BSP)," IEEE Trans. on Computers, May 1982, pp. 363-373 *
  • Hillis and Steele. "Data Parallel Algorithms, Communications of the ACM," December 1986, pp. 1170-1183
  • Tucker and Robertson. Architecture and Applications of the Connection Machine," IEEE Computer, pp. 26-38, August 1988
  • Gokhale, Holmes, and Iobst. "Processing in Memory: The Terasys Massively Parallel PIM Array," IEEE Computer, April 1995, pp. 23-31 *