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COMP8320:
Multicore Computing: Principles and Practice:
Semester 2 2009
Course staff:
Dr Peter Strazdins
(coordinator and lecturer)
and Ahmed El-Ziein, Jay Larson, Ben
Lippmeier and Alistair Rendell.
Software engineers who do not understand parallel [multicore] processing
will become obsolete!
-- Professor Rudolph Eigenmann, keynote address at the ISPA'06 conference
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General Information
- The course's formal requisite is enrolment in the Master of Computing. However,
one-off enrollments may be made by people with the required assumed
knowledge. Also students taking other degrees, including 4th year
undergraduates, may seek to enrol through special permission (contact
the course co-ordinator).
- Assumed knowledge is equivalent to having done the equivalent of an
introductory course on computer architecture, a course on concurrency,
and intermediate programming and data structure courses.
- Please see the StudyAt
entry for Course Description and Learning Outcomes.
- The following document contains the proposed
Syllabus, Topics, Rationale and Learning Outcomes for the course.
- Lecture times and venue: see the
ANU timetable.
A total of 10 two-hour lectures will be given, see the
course activity schedule
for more details.
- There is a
Discussion forum which will be (semi-) regularly
monitored by the course staff.
- The course's
wattle page will be used for DLD recodings.
- Computing facilities: we will primarily be using an UltraSPARC T2
(also known as the Niagara-2), T5120 model,
which was generously donated by Sun Microsystems
in 2008. The T2's control domain, called
mavericks, is hosted in the Computer System's group research
subnet; a guest domain, called
wallaman, is exported to the CSIT student subnet.
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