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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">EE 6900: Interconnection Networks for HPC Systems and Accelerators</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">EE 6900 is intended to provide graduate students with an in-depth study of interconnection networks for high-performance computing (HPC) systems, multi-cores and hardware accelerators. Interconnection
networks offer an attractive and economical solution to this communication crisis and are fast becoming pervasive at all levels of digital system, whether it be on-chip, inter-chip, inter-board and inter-rack. As
<i>machine learning</i> based accelerators begin to dominate the market, this course will also analyze the impact of data movement for deep learning applications. Emerging technologies such as photonics and wireless will also be discussed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">[1] Introduction to Interconnection Networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">[2] Topology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">[3] Switching Techniques<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">[4] Taxonomy of Routing Algorithms<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">[5] Flow Control<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">[6] Router Micro-architecture<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">[7] Hardware Accelerators for Deep Learning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="color:gray">-----------------------------------------------------------------------</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white;text-align:start"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:gray">Avinash Karanth</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white;text-align:start"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:gray">Chair, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white;text-align:start"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:gray">Joseph K. Jachinowski Professor in EECS</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white;text-align:start"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:gray">Associate Editor – IEEE Transactions on Computers</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white;text-align:start"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:gray">Associate Editor – IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white;text-align:start"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:gray">Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701.</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white;text-align:start"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:gray">Phone: 740-597-1481</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white;text-align:start"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:gray">Fax: 740-593-0007</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white;text-align:start"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:gray">Webpage:
<a href="https://oucsace.cs.ohio.edu/~avinashk">https://oucsace.cs.ohio.edu/~avinashk</a></span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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