Computer Science 258

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Title	Parallel Processors
Units	3
Prerequisites	252.
Description	In-depth study of the design, engineering, and evaluation of modern parallel computers. Fundamental design: naming, synchronization, latency, and bandwidth. Architectural evolution and technological driving forces. Parallel programming models, communication primitives, programming and compilation techniques, multiprogramming workloads and methodology for quantitative evaluation. Latency avoidance through replication in small-scale and large-scale shared memory designs; cache-coherency, protocols, directories, and memory consistency models. Message passing: protocols, storage management, and deadlock. Efficient network interface, protection, events, active messages, and coprocessors in large-scale designs. Latency tolerance through prefetching, multithreading, dynamic instruction scheduling, and software techniques. Network design: topology, packaging, k-ary n-cubes, performance under contention. Synchronization: global operations, mutual exclusion, and events. Alternative architectures: dataflow, SIMD, systoltic arrays.

Sections Instructor Teaching Effectiveness How worthwhile was this course?

Spring 2002 Kubiatowicz 6.2 / 7 ± 0.4
5.8 / 7 ± 0.5

Spring 1999 Culler 6.0 / 7 ± 0.4
6.3 / 7 ± 0.3

Spring 1995 Culler 6.0 / 7 ± 0.3
5.8 / 7 ± 0.3

Spring 1990 Ranade 4.9 / 7 ± 0.8
5.3 / 7 ± 0.8

Fall 1988 Ranade 3.3 / 7 ± 1.6
4.0 / 7 ± 1.2

Overall Rating Teaching Effectiveness How worthwhile was this course?

Computer Science 258 5.7 / 7 ± 0.1
5.7 / 7 ± 0.1

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