15-495 Fall '02
Class Handouts Available On-Line

Note: ``PDF'' files can read using the Adobe Acrobat Reader, and ``PPT'' files are in Microsoft Powerpoint format (prepared using the Office 2000 version of Powerpoint for Windows).

Lecture Notes

• Lecture 1: Why Parallel Architecture? (Aug. 27) PPT
• Lecture 2: Evolution and Convergence (Aug. 28) PPT
• Lecture 3: Fundamental Design Issues (Aug. 29) PPT
• Lectures 4-5: Parallel Programming: Overview (Sep. 3, 4 ) PPT
• Lectures 6-8: Parallel Programming: Performance (Sep. 5, 10, 11) PPT
• Lecture 9: Parallel Programming: (Sep. 12)
  • Case Studies: PPT
  • Implications for Programming Models: PPT
• Lectures 10-11: Workload-Driven Architecture Evaluation (Sep. 17, 18) PPT
• Lectures 12-14: Shared Memory Multiprocessors (Sep. 19, 24, 25) PPT
• Lectures 15-16: Directory-Based Cache Coherence (Sep. 26, Oct. 1) PPT
• Lecture 17: Memory Consistency Models (Oct. 2) PS
• Lectures 18-21: Snoop-Based Multiprocessor Design (Oct. 3, 10, 16, 17) PPT
• Lecture 22: Synchronization (Oct. 22) PPT
• Lectures 24-25: Scalable Distributed Memory Multiprocessors (Oct. 24, 29) PPT
• Lecture 26: Interconnection Network Design (Oct. 30) PPT
• Lecture 27: Latency Tolerance: Prefetching (Oct. 31) PS
• Lecture 28: Latency Tolerance: Multithreading (Nov. 5) PS

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