Class 3. P: ECE 264 and 463. Examines how to program parallel
processing systems. Various parallel algorithms are presented to
demonstrate different techniques for mapping tasks onto parallel
machines. Parallel architectures to be considered are: SIMD
(synchronous), MIMD (asynchronous), and mixed-mode (SIMD/MIMD hybrid).
Machines that represent these classes to be used in the course are the
MasPar MP-1 (SIMD); nCUBE 2 (MIMD); and PASM (mixed-mode). There will
be three programming projects, one on each machine. The similarities
and differences among the machines and their languages will be
discussed.