Table of ContentsCS 258 Parallel Computer Architecture Today’s Goal: What will you get out of CS258? Will it be worthwhile? Am I going to read my book to you? What is Parallel Architecture? Why Study Parallel Architecture? Why Study it Today? Is Parallel Computing Inevitable? Application Trends Speedup Commercial Computing TPC-C Results for March 1996 Scientific Computing Demand Engineering Computing Demand Applications: Speech and Image Processing Is better parallel arch enough? Summary of Application Trends - - - Little break - - - Technology Trends Can’t we just wait for it to get faster? Technology: A Closer Look Growth Rates Architectural Trends Phases in “VLSI” Generation Architectural Trends How far will ILP go? Threads Level Parallelism “on board” What about Multiprocessor Trends? Bus Bandwidth What about Storage Trends? Economics Can we see some hard evidence? Consider Scientific Supercomputing Raw Uniprocessor Performance: LINPACK Raw Parallel Performance: LINPACK 500 Fastest Computers Summary: Why Parallel Architecture? Where is Parallel Arch Going? Today Modern Layered Framework How will we spend out time? How will grading work? Any other questions? |
Author: David E. Culler
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