1. Lecture 0. Course Introduction Prof. Taeweon Suh Computer Science Education Korea University COM503 Parallel Computer Architecture & Programming

2. Korea Univ Course Information Instructor: Prof. Taeweon Suh Textbooks  Parallel Computer Organization and Design by Michel Dubois, Murali Annavaram, and Per Stenstrom, 2012, Cambridge University Press  Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software Approach (Fourth Edition) by David E. Culler and Jaswinder Pal Singh, 1999, Morgan Kaufmann  Using OpenMP: Portable Shared Memory Parallel Programming by Barbara Chapman et al, 4 th Ed., The MIT Press, 2009 Reference  Parallel Programming with MPI by Peter S. Pachoco, Morgan Kaufmann, 1997  Pthreads Programming by Bradford Nichols et al, O’Reilly, 1996 Prerequisites  COMP212 Computer Architecture  C-Language Office hours  After class as needed  By appointment at Lyceum 307 Contact Information  suhtw@korea.ac.kr suhtw@korea.ac.kr  02-3290-2397 Class web page  http://esca.korea.ac.kr/ 2

3. Korea Univ Objectives The first half of the course  Multiprocessor Systems Shared and/or distributed memory-based systems Cluster-based systems  Cache Coherence Protocols Snoop-based protocols Directory-based protocols  Memory Consistency Models  Basically, hardware stuff you need to know for parallel programming The second half of the course  Parallel Programming with OpenMP 3

4. Korea Univ Grading Policy Exams (50%)  Midterm Exam: 30%  Final Exam: 20% Project: 30% Assignments: 20% 4