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Laurea magistrale in Ingegneria e scienze informatiche - Enrollment from 2025/2026

The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.

CURRICULUM TIPO:

1° Year 

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
12
B
ING-INF/05
12
B
ING-INF/05

2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2012/2013

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Altre attivita' formative
4
F
-
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
12
B
ING-INF/05
12
B
ING-INF/05
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°

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Teaching code

4S02910

Coordinator

Nicola Bombieri

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

ING-INF/05 - INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS

Period

II semestre dal Mar 1, 2012 al Jun 15, 2012.

Learning outcomes

The course will provide theoretical and practical knowledge on definition, design and analysis of advanced computer architectures with more emphasis on multicore platforms.

Program

Module THEORY (32h):

1. Introduction to parallelism.
2. Parallel architecture:
-) taxonomy
-) shared memory
-) UMA NUMA
-) cache coherence
-) snooping
3. Parallel programming models:
-) shared memory
-) threads
-) message passing
-) data parallel
-) hybrid
4. Parallel computing patterns, task organization and scheduling:
-) SPMD
5. Task migration and message passing.
6. Performance evaluation of digital systems:
-) network performance
-) Hardware/Software system performance
-) real-time system performance
-) Amdhal’s law, metrics
-) distributed system performance
7. Pipelining:
-) MIPS pipeline
-) enhancing performance with pipelining.
8. CUDA architectures
9. Memory hierarchy and performance:
10. Introduction to power consumption.

Module LAB (24h):
Lab.0 Distributed systems simulation tools howto
Lab.1 Parallel compilers for multicore architectures (OpenMP)
Lab.2 Parallel compilers for clusters (MPI)
Lab.3 Programming massively parallel processors
All the lab lessons will be based on the Wind River Simics platform MPC8572 ( http://www.windriver.com/products/simics/ )

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson Computer Architecture - A Quantitative Approach (Edizione 4) Morgan Kaufmann 2007

Examination Methods

Preliminary test + lab project

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE