Multi \u2013 Core Architectures and Programming Syllabus for B.Tech 8th sem is covered here. This gives the details about credits, number of hours and other details along with reference books for the course.<\/p>\n
The detailed syllabus for Multi \u2013 Core Architectures and Programming B.Tech (R13) eightsem is as follows<\/p>\n
OBJECTIVES:\u00a0<\/strong>The student should be made to:<\/p>\n Understand the challenges in parallel and multi-threaded programming.<\/p>\n Learn about the various parallel programming paradigms, and solutions.<\/p>\n UNIT I : MULTI-CORE PROCESSORS<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 [9 hours] UNIT II : PARALLEL PROGRAM CHALLENGES<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0[9 hours] UNIT III : SHARED MEMORY PROGRAMMING WITH Open MP<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0[9 hours]
\nSingle core to Multi-core architectures \u2013 SIMD and MIMD systems \u2013 Interconnection networks –\u00a0Symmetric and Distributed Shared Memory Architectures \u2013 Cache coherence – Performance Issues \u2013\u00a0Parallel program design.<\/p>\n
\nPerformance \u2013 Scalability \u2013 Synchronization and data sharing \u2013 Data races \u2013 Synchronization\u00a0primitives (mutexes, locks, semaphores, barriers) \u2013 deadlocks and livelocks \u2013 communication\u00a0between threads (condition variables, signals, message queues and pipes).<\/p>\n
\nOpenMP Execution Model \u2013 Memory Model \u2013 OpenMP Directives \u2013 Work-sharing Constructs – Library\u00a0functions \u2013 Handling Data and Functional Parallelism \u2013 Handling Loops – Performance\u00a0Considerations.<\/p>\n