CS 541 Chip Multiprocessors
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This advent of large-scale multi-core processors, also known as Chip Multiprocessors (CMPs), will change the way high-performance applications are designed, implemented, and executed. CMPs have advantages over complex uni-processor systems in terms of ease of validation, power efficiency, and exploiting thread level parallelism. They will not only be the central components of future desktop machines, but they will soon be bulding blocks for constructing large scale parallel and distributed, computer architectures. Recent chip multiprocessors such as IBM's Cell and Sun's Niagara are an important step in this direction. Among the issues to be studied are chip multiprocessor architectures, motivation and trends, barriers on uniprocessor architectures, cache design and compilation in chip multiprocessors, static and dynamic compilers, future research directions.
Credit units: 3 ECTS Credit units: 7.5.
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