ECE 253 - Parallel System Performance

Institution:

Duke University

Subject:

Electrical & Computer Egr

Description:

Intrinsic limitations to computer performance. Amdahl's Law and its extensions. Components of computer architecture and operating systems, and their impact on the performance available to applications. Intrinsic properties of application programs and their relation to performance. Task graph models of parallel programs. Estimation of best possible execution times. Task assignment and related heuristics. Load balancing. Specific examples from computationally intensive, I/O intensive, and mixed parallel and distributed computations. Global distributed system performance. Prerequisites: Computer Science 110; Electrical and Computer Engineering 152. Instructor: Staff

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.DUKE.EDU

Phone Number:

(919) 684-8111

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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