Dozent	Oliver Bring­mann HeadOliver Bring­mann
Vor­lesung	Fre­itags, 14 c.t. - 16 Uhr Hörsaal 1 F119, Sand 6/7
Übungsleitung	Christoph Gerum Re­searcherChristoph Gerum
Übungs­gruppe	Mon­tags, 12 c.t. - 14 Sand 14 / Sem­i­nar­raum C215
Um­fang	4 CP (2 SWS)
Kur­sart	Lec­ture + Ex­er­cises
Ein­trag im Kurskat­a­log	Cam­pus

This Lec­ture con­sid­ers the topic of par­al­lel com­puter ar­chi­tec­ture. It pri­mar­ily fo­cuses on the de­sign prin­ci­ples of par­al­lel com­puter ar­chi­tec­ture but cov­ers some as­pects of pro­gram­ming for par­al­lel com­puter ar­chi­tec­ture.

The lec­ture con­sid­ers the fol­low­ing top­ics:

• In­struc­tion
• Level Par­al­lelism: Su­per­scalar Ar­chi­tec­tures, Spec­u­la­tive Ex­e­cu­tion, VLIW Ar­chi­tec­tures
• Mul­ti­core-/Mul­ti­proces­sor-Ar­chi­tec­tures
• Caches in Shared Mem­ory Ar­chi­tec­tures. Cache-Co­herency
• Shared Mem­ory Ar­chi­tec­tures and Syn­chro­ni­sa­tion
• Quan­ti­ta­tive Prin­ci­ples of Com­puter Ar­chi­tec­tures
• Par­al­lel Pro­gram­ming Mod­els
• In­ter­con­nec­tion Net­works (Topol­ogy, Switch­ing, Rout­ing)
• Do­main-spe­cific Ar­chi­tec­tures and GPG­PUs
• Case Stud­ies

Lit­er­a­ture

J. L. Hen­nessy, D. A. Pat­ter­son: Com­puter Ar­chi­tec­ture: A Quan­ti­tive Ap­proach, Mor­gan Kauf­mann Pub­lish­ers Inc, El­se­vier, 6. Au­flage, 2018.

Com­ment

The or­gan­i­sa­tion of the cor­re­spond­ing ex­er­cises (group di­vi­sion, an­nounce­ment of times and rooms, etc.) takes place in the first hour of the lec­ture.