NPTEL :: Computer Science and Engineering - Program Optimization for Multi-core Architectures

Modules / Lectures

Multi-core: The Ultimate Dose of Moore's Law
- Evolution of Processor Architecture
- Introduction to Multi-core Architecture
Virtual Memory and Caches
- Virtual Memory and Caches
- Cache Hierarchy and Memory-level Parallelism
Fundamentals of Parallel Computers: ILP vs TLP
- Communication Architectures and Communication Costs
- Preliminaries of Parallel Programming
Parallel Programming: Shared Memory and Message Passing
- Examples of Shared Memory and Message Passing Programming
- Optimizing Shared Memory Performance
Performance Issues in Shared Memory and Introduction to Coherence
- Performance Issues in Shared Memory
- Introduction to Coherence
Shared Memory Multiprocessors: Consistency and Coherence
- Introduction to Snoopy Coherence
- Cache Coherence Protocols
Synchronization
- Introduction to Atomic Primitives
- Scalable Locks and Barriers
Memory Consistency Models and Case Studies of Multi-core
- Memory Consistency Models and Case Studies of Multi-core
- Case Studies of Multi-core
Addendum to Module 6: Shared Memory Multiprocessors
- Multiprocessor Organizations and Cache Coherence
- Sharing Patterns and Cache Coherence Protocols
Open Multi-Processing
- What is Parallelization?
- The “omp sections” Directive
The “lastprivate” Clause
- Clause and Routines
- Intel Compilers and Threading Tools
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- Intel Compilers and Threading Tool
- Code Optimization
INTRODUCTION TO COMPILERS FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTERS
- Supercomputing Applications
- SIMD Architecture
Approaches to Control Flow Analysis
- Algorithm and Interval
- Structural Analysis
Reaching Definition
- Reaching Definition
- Analysis
Data Flow Analysis in Presence of Procedure Calls
- Data Dependence Analysis
- Iteration
Loops
- Data Dependence in Parallel Loops
- Symbolic Analysis
Loop Optimizations
- Amdahl’s Law
- Cycle Shrinking
Multi-core computing Operating Systems
- Multi-core computing CPU Scheduling
- Priority and Schedule
Multi-core Computing Multi-processor Scheduling
- Multi-processor Scheduling
- Multi-core Computing Synchronization
Problem and Solution
- Solution to Critical Section Problem
- Multi-core ComputingInter-process Communication
Multi-core Computing Security
- Multiprocessor Techniques
- Cryptography and ECB