Welcome to ECE 6095 - Advanced Multicore Architectures

Course Syllabus (updated 01/18/2016)

Instructor

• Professor Omer Khan
• Office: ITEB 447
• Email: khan@uconn.edu
• Office Hours: By appointment via email

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Lectures

• Lecture 1: Why Study Multicore Architectures? PDF
• Lecture 2: Parallel Computation Models PDF
• Lecture 3: Parallel Programming Patterns: Tiled Algorithms I PDF
• Lecture 4: Parallel Programming Patterns: Tiled Algorithms II PDF
• Lecture 5: Parallel Programming Patterns: Reduction and Scan PDF
• Lecture 6: Parallel Programming Patterns: Histogramming PDF
• Lecture 7: Parallel Programming Patterns: Instruction Partitioning PDF
• Lecture 8: Shared Memory Model I PDF
• Lecture 9: Shared Memory Model II PDF
• Lecture 10: Shared Memory Cache Coherence I PDF
• Lecture 11: Shared Memory Cache Coherence II PDF
• Lecture 12: Shared Memory Cache Coherence III PDF
• Lecture 13: CC, SC and Relaxed Memory Models PDF
• Lecture 14: Multicore Caches I PDF
• Lecture 15: Multicore Caches II PDF
• Lecture 16: Interconnection Networks I PDF
• Lecture 17: Interconnection Networks II PDF
• Lecture 18: Interconnection Networks III PDF
• Lecture 19: Transactional Memory PDF
• Lecture 20: GPUs PDF

Lab Assignments

• Lab 0: Getting Started with Graphite Multicore Simulator PDF (due Jan 26, 2016, 12:30pm EST)
• Lab 1: Parallelization and analysis of matrix-matrix multiplication PDF (due Feb 9, 2016, 12:30pm EST)
• Lab 2: Parallelization and analysis of prefix scan PDF (due March 1, 2016, 11:59pm EST)
• Lab 3: Parallelization and analysis of histogram PDF (due March 24, 2016, 11:59pm EST)

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