Course Review for Final Exam
CS 641 Lecture, Dr. Lawlor
Topics to know for final exam:
- Multicore hardware and software design: SMP vs SMT, cache coherence, lock-free multithread data structures
- Performance modeling: average memory access time, alpha-beta latency/bandwidth models, Amdahl's law, load imbalance
- SIMD via AVX, SSE
- Message passing: network sockets, MPI, PUP