Terminated in academic year 2023/2024

HPC Architectures

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	9600-1002/01
Abbreviation	HPCA
Course title	HPC Architectures
Credits	4
Coordinating department	IT4Innovations
Course coordinator	doc. Ing. Lubomír Říha, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction to Parallel Architectures
2. Parallel Architectures
3. Parallel Computers Performance Evaluation
4. Computer Networks for HPC
5. Linear and Non-Linear Pipeline
6. Memory for Parallel Architectures
7. Vector Computers and Vectorization Methods
8. Shared Memory Architectures (Fundamentals of Cache and Protocols)
9. Architectures for Accelerated Computing (GPU and MIC)
10. Latest Development in HPC Architectures

Literature

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

Advised literature

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

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