CS6801 MULTI-CORE ARCHITECTURES AND PROGRAMMING | syllabus

CS6801 MULTI-CORE ARCHITECTURES AND PROGRAMMING L T P C 3 0 0 3

OBJECTIVES:

The student should be made to:
 Understand the challenges in parallel and multi-threaded programming.
 Learn about the various parallel programming paradigms, and solutions.

UNIT I      MULTI-CORE PROCESSORS    (9)

Single core to Multi-core architectures – SIMD and MIMD systems – Interconnection networks -
Symmetric and Distributed Shared Memory Architectures – Cache coherence - Performance Issues –
Parallel program design.

UNIT II      PARALLEL PROGRAM CHALLENGES    (9)

Performance – Scalability – Synchronization and data sharing – Data races – Synchronization
primitives (mutexes, locks, semaphores, barriers) – deadlocks and livelocks – communication
between threads (condition variables, signals, message queues and pipes).

UNIT III      SHARED MEMORY PROGRAMMING WITH OpenMP    (9)

OpenMP Execution Model – Memory Model – OpenMP Directives – Work-sharing Constructs - Library
functions – Handling Data and Functional Parallelism – Handling Loops - Performance
Considerations.

UNIT IV      DISTRIBUTED MEMORY PROGRAMMING WITH MPI    (9)

MPI program execution – MPI constructs – libraries – MPI send and receive – Point-to-point and
Collective communication – MPI derived datatypes – Performance evaluation

UNIT V      PARALLEL PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT    (9)

Case studies - n-Body solvers – Tree Search – OpenMP and MPI implementations and comparison.

                                                                                                                          TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

OUTCOMES:

At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
 Program Parallel Processors.
 Develop programs using OpenMP and MPI.
 Compare and contrast programming for serial processors and programming for parallel
processors.

TEXT BOOKS:

1. Peter S. Pacheco, “An Introduction to Parallel Programming”, Morgan-Kauffman/Elsevier, 2011.
2. Darryl Gove, “Multicore Application Programming for Windows, Linux, and Oracle Solaris”,
Pearson, 2011 (unit 2)

REFERENCES:

1. Michael J Quinn, “Parallel programming in C with MPI and OpenMP”, Tata McGraw Hill, 2003.
2. Shameem Akhter and Jason Roberts, “Multi-core Programming”, Intel Press, 2006.

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