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Unit-I Introduction To Parallel Processing

This document provides information on the course "Advanced Computer Architecture" which is offered in the 5th semester of the B.Tech Computer Science Engineering program. It is worth 4 credits and involves 4 hours of class per week. The course covers various topics in parallel processing including pipeline and vector processing, SIMD array processors, multiprocessor architectures and programming, and data flow computers. The textbook used is "Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing" by Kai Hwang and Faye A. Briggs.

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Unit-I Introduction To Parallel Processing

This document provides information on the course "Advanced Computer Architecture" which is offered in the 5th semester of the B.Tech Computer Science Engineering program. It is worth 4 credits and involves 4 hours of class per week. The course covers various topics in parallel processing including pipeline and vector processing, SIMD array processors, multiprocessor architectures and programming, and data flow computers. The textbook used is "Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing" by Kai Hwang and Faye A. Briggs.

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Code: EURCS 501

Category: CE
Credits: 4
Hours: 4 per week
Department: CSE

B.Tech. (CSE)Fifth Semester


ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

Unit-I
Introduction to Parallel Processing:
Trends towards Parallel Processing; Parallelism in Uniprocessors Systems
:-Parallel Processing Mechanisms,Balancing of subsystem bandwidth ; Parallel
Computer Structures:-Pipeline Computers, Array processors,Multiprocessor
systems ; Architectural Classification Schemes:- Multiplicity of Instruction
Data Streams , Serial Vs Parallel Processing.
Unit-II
Principles of Pipelining and Vector Processing:
Pipelining:-Principles of linear pipelining, Classification of pipeline processors;
Principles of designing pipelined processors; Vector Processing requirements.
Vector Processor :-The Architecture of CRAY-1, The Architecture of CYBER-205,
Vector Processing in CYBER-205.
Unit-III
Structures and Algorithms for Array Processors:
SIMD array processors:-SIMD Computer Organization, masking and data
routing mechanism,Inter PE Communication; SIMD interconnection
networks; Associative array processing:- Associative memory organization,
Associative Search Algorithms.
Unit-IV
Multiprocessors Architecture and Programming:
Functional structures:- Loosely Coupled Multiporcessors, Tightly Coupled
Multiporcessors; Interconnection networks; Parallel memory organization:Interleaved Memory Configurations.
Unit-V
Data Flow Computers:
Data driven computing and languages, Data flow computer Architecture.
Text Books:
1. Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing, Kai Hwang and Faye A.
Briggs.

2. John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson, Computer Architecture: A


Quantitative Approach, 3rd Edition, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers,
2002.

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