15-418 Spring '11
Class Handouts Available On-Line

Lecture Notes

Lecture 1: Why Parallel Architecture? (Jan. 11) PDF
Lecture 2: Evolution and Convergence (Jan. 12) PDF
Lecture 3: Fundamental Design Issues (Jan. 13) PDF
Lectures 4-5: Parallel Programming: Overview (Jan. 18-19) PDF
Lectures 6-8: Parallel Programming: Performance (Jan. 20, 25 & 26) PDF
Lecture 9: Parallel Programming: (Jan. 27)
- Case Studies: PDF
- Implications for Programming Models: PDF
Lectures 10-11: Workload-Driven Architecture Evaluation (Feb. 1 & 2) PDF
Lectures 12, 13 and 14: Shared Memory Multiprocessors (Feb. 3, 8, 9) PDF
Lectures 15-16: Directory-Based Cache Coherence (Feb. 10, 15) PDF
Lecture 17: Memory Consistency Models (Feb. 16) PDF
Lecture 18: Earthquake Simulation Case Study (Feb. 17) PDF
- Spark98 web site
- Spark98 tech report
- Different versions of the C source code:
  - Baseline sequential program: smv
  - Parallel shared-memory versions: lmv, rmv, hmv
  - Parallel message-passing version: mmv
Lectures 19-20: Snoop-Based Multiprocessor Design I: Base Design (Feb. 23, 24) PDF
Lecture 21: Snoop-Based Multiprocessor Design II: More Sophisticated Design (Mar. 1) PDF
Lecture 22: Snoop-Based Multiprocessor Design III: Case Studies (Mar. 2) PDF
Lecture 23: Synchronization (Mar. 3) PDF
Lectures 24-25: Scalable Distributed Memory Multiprocessors (Mar. 22, 23) PDF
Lecture 26: Interconnection Network Design (Mar. 29) PDF
Lecture 27: Latency Tolerance: Prefetching (Mar. 30) PDF