Parallel Computer Architectures
ECE 5772 - Fall Term 2005 Hompage



Instructor: Brian T. Davis

btdavis@mtu.edu

Office Hrs : TBD
Office Rm : 729 EERC
Office Ph# : 487-2256
7th Floor Mailbox # : 40


ECE 5772 Course Meeting Times
Day Time Room Type Instructor
MON 9:05-9:55am 218 EERC LEC Prof. Davis
WED 9:05-9:55am 218 EERC LEC Prof. Davis
FRI 9:05-9:55am 218 EERC LEC Prof. Davis
Class cancelations / rescheduling

Fri Sept. 30th - Conference Travel


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Lecture Notes


ECE 5772 Reading Assignments

Date
Subject to change
Reference Chapter, Pages, Specifics
Wed Sept 7th [Culler98] Chapter 1
[MPR96] "Architects look to processors of future." Gordon Bell, Richard Sites, William Dally, David Ditzel, and Yale Patt.
Microprocessor Report, vol. 10, no. 10, pp. 18-24, August 1996.
[Culler98] Chapter 5
[Stenstrom90] "A Survey of Cache Coherence Schemes for MultiProcessors." Per Stenstrom. IEEE Computer, June 1990, pp. 12-24.
[Hammond97] "A Single-Chip Multiprocessor." Lance Hammond, Basem A.Nayfeh, Kunle Olukotun. IEEE Computer, September 1997, pp. 79-85.
[Culler98] Chapter 6
[Lilja93] Cache Coherence in Large-Scale Shared-Memory Multiprocessors: Issues and Comparisons
[Becker95] BEOWULF: A PARALLEL WORKSTATION FOR SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION
Donald J. Becker, Thomas Sterling, Daniel Savarese, John E. Dorband, Udaya A. Ranawak, Charles V. Packer.
Proceedings, International Conference on Parallel Processing, 1995.
[Culler98] Chapter 7
Reschke96 "A Design Study of Alternative Network Topologies for the Beowulf Parallel Architecture"
[Culler98] Chapter 10

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