Guia docente 2019_20 E. S. de Enxeñaría Informática

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
Introduction to parallel computing. Increasing preformance	Historical perspective. Classification of architectures for parallel processing. Performance measures.
Segmentation and segmented processors	Principles of segmentation. Improvement of performance. Risks
Superscalar, VLIW and vector processors	Superscalar processors: motivation, architecture and benefits. VLIW processors: motivation, architecture and features. Vector processors: motivation, architecture and features.
Parallel computers	Parallel processors: motivation, architecture and prestacions.
Multiprocessors	Parallel programming Performance. Consistency of the memory system. Consistency of memory. Synchronization
Multimedia applications	Parallelism in video applications. Parallelism in audio applications,
LABORATORY PRACTICES I. Programming at low and medium level of the different architectures	C programming of examples of image processing. C programming of examples of image processing with SIMD. C programming of examples of image processing with threads.
LABORATORY PRACTICES II. Use of several benchmarking programs	Benchmarking Profilers Tools for optimization of algorithms. Detection of bottlenecks.