Multicore Architecture and Programming detail syllabus for various departments, 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17CS666), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.
For all other open elective-2 syllabus for vtu be 2017 scheme you can visit Open Elective-2 syllabus for VTU BE 2017 Scheme Subjects. The detail syllabus for multicore architecture and programming is as follows.
Module 1
Introduction to Multi-core Architecture Motivation for Concurrency in software, Parallel Computing Platforms, Parallel Computing in Microprocessors, Differentiating Multi-core Architectures from Hyper- Threading Technology, Multi-threading on Single-Core versus Multi-Core Platforms Understanding Performance, Amdahl’s Law, Growing Returns: Gustafson’s Law. System Overview of Threading : Defining Threads, System View of Threads, Threading above the Operating System, Threads inside the OS, Threads inside the Hardware, What Happens When a Thread Is Created, Application Programming Models and Threading, Virtual Environment: VMs and Platforms, Runtime Virtualization, System Virtualization.
Module 2
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Module 3
Threading APIs :ThreadingAPls for Microsoft Windows, Win32/MFC Thread APls, Threading APls for Microsoft. NET Framework, Creating Threads, Managing Threads, Thread Pools, Thread Synchronization, POSIX Threads, Creating Threads, Managing Threads, Thread Synchronization, Signaling, Compilation and Linking.
Module 4
OpenMP: A Portable Solution for Threading : Challenges in Threading a Loop, Loop-carried Dependence, Data-race Conditions, Managing Shared and Private Data, Loop Scheduling and Portioning, Effective Use of Reductions, Minimizing Threading Overhead, Work-sharing Sections, Performance-oriented Programming, Using Barrier and No wait, Interleaving Single-thread and Multithread Execution, Data Copy-in and Copy-out, Protecting Updates of Shared Variables, Intel Task queuing Extension to OpenMP, OpenMP Library Functions, OpenMP Environment Variables, Compilation, Debugging, performance
Module 5
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Course Outcomes:
The students should be able to:
- Identify the issues involved in multicore architectures
- Explain fundamental concepts of parallel programming and its design issues
- Solve the issues related to multiprocessing and suggest solutions
- Discuss the salient features of different multicore architectures and how they exploit parallelism
- Illustrate OpenMP and programming concept
Question paper pattern:
- The question paper will have ten questions.
- There will be 2 questions from each module.
- Each question will have questions covering all the topics under a module.
- The students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module.
Text Books:
- Multicore Programming, Increased Performance through Software Multi-threading by ShameemAkhter and Jason Roberts, Intel Press, 2006
Reference Books:
NIL
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