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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Computer Science |
| Mestrado Universitario en Computación de Altas Prestacións / High Performance Computing (Mod. Presencial) |
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| High Performance Architecture |
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| Identifying Data | 2019/20 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | High Performance Architecture | Code | 614473101 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Official Master's Degree | 1st four-month period |
First | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Chapter 1. Parallel computers | - Historic introduction - Levels of parallelism: form microarchitecture to supercomputers - Classification |
| Chapter 2. Design of multiprocessors, multicores and manycores | - Introduction - Architecture of multiprocessors, multicores and manycores - Memory architecture |
| Chapter 3. Cache Coherence |
- Protocols - Snooping (UMA systems) - Protocols based on directories (CC-NUMA systems) |
| Tema 4. Sincronización e consistencia de memoria en multiprocesadores | - Primitivas de sincronización - Soporte hardware para sincronización - Implementaciones software de sincronización - Modelos de consistencia de memoria - Comparación entre os modelos de consistencia |
| Chapter 5. Interconexion networks | - Types of networks - Main components - Performance - Design |
| Chapter 6. Distributed systems: clusters | - Introduction - Cluster architecture - Nodes - Interconnection networks - Software - Tools - Applications - Load balance |
| Chapter 7. Introduction to performance analysis. | - Motivation - Basic concepts - Characterization of performance issues - Architecture features related to performance |
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