Chip Multiprocessors ACS MPhil Course

Seminars

1 Trends in microprocessor architecture
- CMOS technology scaling and the shift to multicore
2 Introduction to parallel computing
- Introduction to parallel computer architecture and approaches to parallel programming
  2b Parallel Programming Languages and Examples
3 Parallel algorithms
- Applications and parallel algorithm design
4 Chip Multiprocessors (I)
- Memory Consistency Models, Simple cache coherency protocols
5 Chip Multiprocessors (II)
- CMP Architecture incl. Synchronization and directory-based cache coherence protocols
6 Transactional memory
- Transaction memory concepts and trade-offs in hardware implementations
7 On-chip interconnection networks
- Networking basics, router design, topology choices, deadlock avoidance, Quality-of-Service (QoS)
8 Manycore research issues