CS 395T: Fine-grained parallelism
Spring 2006
Unique ID: 54212
Time: Th 3:30-6:15. Location: BEN 1.124
Professor: Bill Mark
billmark@cs.utexas.edu
Office Hours: Friday 5pm-6pm or by appointment
Basic Information
Final project
Seminar topic
Single-chip multiprocessor architectures provide the opportunity to
exploit fine-grained thread-level parallelism. By 'fine-grained
parallelism' we are referring to threads that execute 10-500
instructions before termination or the next inter-thread
communication/synchronization. We are explicitly *not* referring
to instruction level parallelism within a single thread.
Exploiting fine-grained parallelism requires support from the hardware
architecture, the programming language and the runtime system.
Applications must also be explicitly designed to expose this form of
parallelism. We will read papers from the architecture literature ,
programming language literature, and algorithm/application literature
that provide insight into how to exploit fine-grained parallelism in
future systems.
Seminar methodology
This course will be a seminar-style course. Most class periods will
consist of one or more paper presentations by students in the class,
followed by group discussion and brainstorming about the topics discussed
in the papers. The presentations of papers will be expected to contain
throughtful analysis of the papers rather than just rote regurgitation.
Students will be expected to read the assigned papers before each
class, since the the goal is to use the class time for creative dicussions.
Questions?
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me (Bill Mark) by email.
(c) 2005-2006 Bill Mark