Modern Parallel Architectures and Their Programming

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Department of Applied Informatics in Transportation

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Von Neumanns architecture model

RISC architecture, RICS processors, pipelining

Superscalar architectures

Parallel systems, Flynns taxonomy, Amdahls law

Matrix computers - SIMD

Shared memory and distributed memory MIMD

Interconnection network for parallel systems

GPU

Backup systems

Transputers, OCCAM language

Parallel programming support in OS (semaphores, critical sections, threads) and in programming languages

OpenMP

MPI

Artificial neural networks as parallel computational system, neural processors

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