Parallel Architectures

Type of study	Doctoral
Language of instruction	English
Code	9600-0001/02
Abbreviation	PAR
Course title	Parallel Architectures
Credits	10
Coordinating department	IT4Innovations
Course coordinator	doc. Mgr. Vít Vondrák, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

The course consists of selected chapters on the architecture of parallel computers. Students will become familiar with the classification of parallel architectures and taxonomy of parallel computers. The basic concepts of HPC systems building blocks (processors, vector units, HPC network, memory systems, etc.) will be presented. Then, the description of advanced technologies used in the currently most powerful computers worldwide, such as heterogeneous accelerators or multi-core processors, will follow.

Literature

1. Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design).
2. David Culler, J.P. Singh, Anoop Gupta. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc. 1999. .

Advised literature

1. K. Hwang, Advanced Computer Architecture, McGraw-Hill: 1993
2. Hwang and Zhiwei, Scalable Parallel Computing, McGraw-Hill: 1998

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