PhD Leonidas Tsiopoulos will be teaching a course on Many-Core Programming (course code 453600.0) in period 2. Manycore chips are processor chips where the number of cores is high (i.e. 8 or more), and there can be cores of different types. Since it can be seen that the number of cores on chips is going to increase substantially in the near future (we are already seeing commercial chips with 64 or more cores), it is important to understand how to program such chips. The course starts Monday 28.10 at 16:15 in lecture room Cobol (B3040). You can also find info about the course on Moodle, https://moodle.abo.fi/course/view.php?id=815 You need an ÅA login for this. Here is the official blurb for the course: The foundations for programming many-core chips lies in parallel programming. Parallel computing has up-to now been mostly an issue in Scientific and High-Performance Computing. Parallel computing has been used to implement solutions for very large scientific problems and on very large clusters of computers. This landscape is changing in at least 2 ways: 1. Parallel computing is now available in desktop computers that come with 2-8 core processes, and many embedded processors are now many-core processors (e.g. OMAP 4 has dual core Cortex A9, and a TI DSP). Parallel computing is not anymore confined to the domain of very large and expensive clusters. 2. The exploitation of parallel computing capacity becomes more and more important in application areas like web-services, multi-media, gaming, etc. These application areas exhibit radically different parallelisation structures than traditional HPC application. The purpose of this course is to give the student an overview of the tools used to develop these new kinds of applications on many-core processors. The course includes handson-exercises, and a project.
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