PMPH is structured to have four hours of (physical) lectures and four hours of (physical) labs per week; potentially we will have no lectures in the last few weeks of the course, so you can ...

The hardware track of the course covers (lecture) topics related to processor, memory and interconnect design, including cache coherency, which are selected from the book Parallel Computer ...

CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Parallel computer architecture and programming models. Message passing and shared memory multiprocessors. Scalability, synchronization, memory consistency, cache coherence. Memory ...

I was wondering if anyone could give their thoughts on the books <I>Computer Organization and Design</I> by David Patterson and John Hennessy and <I>Computer Architecture</I> by John ...