Instructor:
    Dr. Gheith Abandah

Email:
    abandah@fet.ju.edu.jo

Home page:
    http://fet.ju.edu.jo/~abandah

Office:
    EE 405

Office hours:
    Sat 12:00-13:00, Mon 10:00-11:00, and Tue 11:00-12:00 (Tentative).

No. of credit hrs:
    3

Prerequisites:
    EE 431

Time and room:
    Sat, Mon, and Wed 11:00-12:00, Med. Rm. 1

Textbook:
    D. Culler and J.P. Singh with A. Gupta. Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software Approach, Morgan Kaufmann, 1998.

References:
    1. K. Hwang. Advanced Computer Architecture: Parallelism, Scalability, Programmability, McGraw-Hill, 1993.
    2. H. Stone, High- Performance Computer Architecture, 3^rd ed., Addison-Wesley, 1993.
    3. J. Hayes. Computer Architecture and Organization, 2^nd ed., McGraw-Hill, 1988.
    4. Hennessy and Patterson. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 2^nd ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 1995.

Grading:
    Homework and quizzes     10% (Tentative)
    First exam                         20%
    Second exam                    20%
    Final exam                        50%

Tentative outline:
    Classification of Parallel Processing
    Modern Parallel Uniprocessors and Future Trends, e.g. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, PA 8000, PowerPC, and Merced
    Parallel Programming
        First Exam
    Performance and Scalability of Parallel Systems
    Snoop-Based Multiprocessors
    Scalable Shared Memory Multiprocessors
        Second Exam
    Message Passing Multicomputers
    Interconnection Networks
        Final Exam