Computer Science 2500 Computer Organization Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Spring 2009

Agenda

• Announcements
  • office hours today and Tuesday
• Lab 5 back (finally)
• Lab 7 related questions
• Lab 8 continues
• More on the final exam
  • practice exam - a few questions from old exams I've given
  • time reserved in class on Tuesday for questions and answers
• Lecture assignment recap
• Parallelism
  • Instruction-level parallelism
  • SIMD instructions
  • Multicore
  • Cell
  • Graphics processing units
  • Cache coherency
• Parallel Programming
  • multicore and SMP
  • multithreaded programming
  • clusters and supercomputers
  • message-passing programming