15-418 Spring '08
Class Handouts Available On-Line

Lecture Notes

Lecture 1: Why Parallel Architecture? (Jan. 15) PDF
Lecture 2: Evolution and Convergence (Jan. 16) PDF
Lecture 3: Fundamental Design Issues (Jan. 17) PDF
Lectures 4-5: Parallel Programming: Overview (Jan. 22-23) PDF
Lectures 6-8: Parallel Programming: Performance (Jan. 24, 29 & 30) PDF
Lecture 9: Parallel Programming: (Jan. 31)
- Case Studies: PDF
- Implications for Programming Models: PDF
Lectures 10-11: Workload-Driven Architecture Evaluation (Feb. 5 & 7) PDF
Lectures 12, 13 and 15: Shared Memory Multiprocessors (Feb. 12, 13, 19) PDF
Lecture 14: Earthquake Simulation Case Study (Feb. 14) 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 16-17: Directory-Based Cache Coherence (Feb. 20, 21) PDF
Lecture 18: Memory Consistency Models (Feb. 27) PDF
Lectures 19-20: Snoop-Based Multiprocessor Design I: Base Design (Feb. 28, Mar. 4) PDF
Lecture 21: Snoop-Based Multiprocessor Design II: More Sophisticated Design (Mar. 5) PDF
Lecture 22: Snoop-Based Multiprocessor Design III: Case Studies (Mar. 6) PDF
Lecture 23: Synchronization (Mar. 18) PDF
Lectures 24-25: Scalable Distributed Memory Multiprocessors (Mar. 20, 25) PDF
Lecture 26: Interconnection Network Design (Mar. 26) PDF
Lecture 27: Latency Tolerance: Prefetching (Mar. 27) PDF
Lecture 28: Latency Tolerance: Multithreading (Apr. 1) PDF