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CS-302: Parallelism and concurrency in software

Summary

From sensors,to smart phones,to the world's largest datacenters and supercomputers, parallelism & concurrency is ubiquitous in modern computing.There are also many forms of parallel & concurrent execution in modern platforms with varying degrees of ease of programmability,performance & efficiency.

Lectures

Instructor

Babak Falsafi

Babak is a Professor in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences and the founding director of the EcoCloud, an industrial/academic consortium at EPFL investigating scalable data-centric technologies. He has made numerous contributions to computer system design and evaluation including a scalable multiprocessor architecture which was prototyped by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle), snoop filters and memory streaming technologies that are incorporated into IBM BlueGene/P and Q and ARM cores, and computer system performance evaluation methodologies that have been in use by AMD, HP and Google PerKit . He has shown that hardware memory consistency models are neither necessary (in the 90's) nor sufficient (a decade later) to achieve high performance in multiprocessor systems. These results eventually led to fence speculation in modern microprocessors. His latest work on workload-optimized server processors laid the foundation for the first generation of Cavium ARM server CPUs, ThunderX. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award, IBM Faculty Partnership Awards, and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. He is a fellow of IEEE and ACM.

Official source

https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/parallelism-and-concurrency-in-software-CS-302

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/CS-302

Summary

Lectures

Instructor

Babak Falsafi

Official source

https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/parallelism-and-concurrency-in-software-CS-302

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/CS-302

Ontological neighbourhood

Computer engineering

High-performance computing: Parallel computing, Concurrent computing

Hardware engineering: Microprocessors

Theoretical computer science

Programming language theory: High-level programming languages

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