Course Syllabus Course Title: Advanced Computer Architecture Page 1 Page 1 of 5
Philadelphia University Faculty of Information Technology Department of Computer Science …

Shared memory facilitates the transition from sequential to parallel processing. Since most
data structures can be retained, simply adding synchronization achieves correct, efficient …

Unlike many other operating systems, Amoeba is a distributed operating system that
provides group communication (ie, one-to-many communication). We will discuss design …

Linda is a language for programming parallel applications whose most notable feature is a
distributed shared memory called tuple space. While suitable for a wide variety of programs …

A high level virtual computer in a heterogeneous hard ware and software environment. A
user specifies the hardware and software configuration of a virtual corn puter employing …

Parallel computing onclusters ofworkstations and personal computers has very high
potential, since it leverages exist-ing hardware and software. Parallel programming …

The Amoeba group communication system has two unique aspects:(1) it uses a sequencer-
based protocol with negative acknowledgements for achieving a total order on all group …

Recent technological advances have produced network interfaces that provide users with
very low-latency access to the memory of remote machines. We examine the impact of such …

Orca is a language for parallel programming on distributed systems. Communication in Orca
is based on shared data-objects, which is a form of distributed shared memory. The …

Most modern network protocols give adequate support for traditional applications such as
file transfer and remote login. Distributed applications, however, have different requirements …