BU/CLA CS-551

Lectures
The following is a listing of all the lectures offered in this class. The lectures are not listed in a chronological order. Rather, they are listed topically. Due to the need for spreading the problem sets and lab assignments throughout the semester, some lectures had to be given earlier out of topical order. Lectures covering more than one topic may be multiply listed.

• Introductory Lectures:
  • [09/13/94] Course Overview and Classification of Parallel Machines
  • [09/15/94] The PRAM and VLSI Complexity models
  • [09/20/94] Mapping Software Parallelism onto Hardware Parallelism
  • [09/22/94] From Communication Patterns to Hardware Topologies
  • [09/27/94] Speedup and Scalability analysis

• Lectures on Parallel Computer Architectures:
  • [10/04/94] Overview of basic CPU and memory design issues
  • [10/20/94] Multiprocessors: Communication and Memory issues
  • [11/01/94] Message Passing Architectures: Routing issues
  • [11/03/94] Vector Processing and SIMD Architectures
  • [11/15/94] The CM-2, MasPar, and CM-5 Architectures
  • [11/17/94] Latency Hiding Architectures
  • [11/22/94] Multithreading Architectures
  • [12/01/94] Dataflow Architectures

• Lectures on Parallel Programming Languages and Models:
  • [10/06/94] UNITY: An architecture-independent language
  • [10/13/94] UNITY: Mapping programs to various architectures
  • [09/27/94] C*: A synchronous language for CM-5 SIMD programming
  • [11/15/94] MPL: A synchronous language for MasPar SIMD programming
  • [10/11/94] CMMD: A library for SPMD programming
  • [10/25/94] PVM: An environment for loosely-coupled MIMD programming
  • [11/08/94] High Performance Fortran: An Overview
  • [11/10/94] Compiler transformation technology
  • [11/29/94] The Linda Programming Model
  • [12/01/94] ID: Parallel dataflow (functional) programming

• Case Studies:
  • [10/25/94] Using Massive parallelism to tackle large graph problems
  • [10/27/94] Maximum Clique and Maximum Cut graph problems on the CM-5

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