Parallel Computing and Architectures

Course Materials

• Lecture slides for second section of the course covering Parallel Architectures including analogies with society, SIMD versus MIMD, Interconnection Networks, Petaflop Dreams, etc.
• Lecture slides for the third section of the course covering Parallel Programming in Data Parallel and Message Passing styles illustrated for Laplace's Equation. Also, performance issues were considered.
• Lecture slides: Architecture Classes of High Performance Computers.
• Lecture slides: MIMD Distributed Memory Architecture.
• Lecture slides: Latency/Bandwidth Space for 0-byte message(Latency) and 1 MB message(bandwidth).
• Computer Architecture is a chaper from the Computational Science Education Project (CSEP). It covers both sequential as well as parallel architectures.

General Resources

• Supercomputing and Parallel Computing Research Groups is a comprehensive list of academic research groups working in the field of supercomputing and parallel computing worldwide.
• Supercomputers and Parallel Computers is a list of product information for current parallel and vector supercomputers.
• List of Parallel Computing Sites including supercomputing and parallel computing, supercomputer vendors, federal agencies, etc.

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