15-418 Spring '04
Class Handouts Available On-Line

Lecture Notes

Lecture 1: Why Parallel Architecture? (Jan. 13) PDF
Lecture 2: Evolution and Convergence (Jan. 14) PDF
Lecture 3: Fundamental Design Issues (Jan. 15) PDF
Lectures 4-5: Parallel Programming: Overview (Jan. 20-21) PDF
Lectures 6-8: Parallel Programming: Performance (Jan. 22, 27 & 28) PDF
Lecture 9: Parallel Programming: (Jan. 29)
- Case Studies: PDF
- Implications for Programming Models: PDF
Lectures 10-11: Workload-Driven Architecture Evaluation (Feb. 3, 4) PDF
Lectures 12-14: Shared Memory Multiprocessors (Feb. 5, 10, 11) PDF
Lectures 15-16: Directory-Based Cache Coherence (Feb. 12, 17) PDF
Lecture 17: Memory Consistency Models (Feb. 18) PDF
Lectures 18-22: Snoop-Based Multiprocessor Design (Feb. 19, 24, Mar. 2, 3) PDF
Lecture 23: Synchronization (Mar. 4) PDF
Lectures 24-25: Scalable Distributed Memory Multiprocessors (Mar. 16, 17) PDF
Lecture 26: Interconnection Network Design (Mar. 18) PDF
Lecture 27: Latency Tolerance: Prefetching (Mar. 23) PDF
Lecture 28: Latency Tolerance: Multithreading (Mar. 24) PDF