13E114PAR - Parallel Computer Systems
| Course specification | ||||
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| Course title | Parallel Computer Systems | |||
| Acronym | 13E114PAR | |||
| Study programme | Electrical Engineering and Computing | |||
| Module | Computer Engineering and Informatics | |||
| Type of study | bachelor academic studies | |||
| Lecturer (for classes) | ||||
| Lecturer/Associate (for practice) | ||||
| Lecturer/Associate (for OTC) | ||||
| ESPB | 6.0 | Status | elective | |
| Condition | Computer architecture and organisation I | |||
| The goal | Understanding the limits of parallel performance, the parallelism at the instruction level, parallelism of loops, detection and use of parallelism in hardware | |||
| The outcome | Profound understanding of superscalar and VLIW processors, optimization for parallel execution in modern compilers and models of parallelism | |||
| Contents | ||||
| Contents of lectures | Parallelism at the instruction level. Data dependencies and data dependency graphs. Trace scheduling. Speculative execution. Parallelism in loops. Loop data dependency graphs. Software pipelining. Vector supercomputers, Very Large Instruction Machines (VLIW) and Superscalar processors. Multicore processors. Hyperthreading. | |||
| Contents of exercises | Using simulators | |||
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| Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year | ||||
| Lectures | Exercises | OTC | Study and Research | Other classes |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Methods of teaching | Classroom courses, education using simulators, clarifying details of parts of the course after students have learnt those parts | |||
| Knowledge score (maximum points 100) | ||||
| Pre obligations | Points | Final exam | Points | |
| Activites during lectures | 0 | Test paper | 0 | |
| Practical lessons | 0 | Oral examination | 70 | |
| Projects | 30 | |||
| Colloquia | 0 | |||
| Seminars | 0 | |||