CIS5930 Interconnection Networks, Fall 2015



Syllabus


Lecture 1: Syllabus and introduction

Lecture 2: Basics

Lecture 3: Topologies

Lecture 4, 5: Switching, routing, deadlock, and others

Lecture 6: Dragonfly (Read the papers before the class, write a critic for each paper)

Lecture 7, 8: Jellyfish (Read the papers before the class, write a critic for each paper)

Lecture 9, 10: Interconnect Modeling

Lecture 11: Interconnect Simulation

Lecture 12: Flit-level Interconnect Simulation

Lecture 13: HPC Interconnect issues

Lecture 14: Datacenter network issues

Lecture 15: Interconnect Technology

Lecture 16: Interconnect Technology

Lecture 17: SDN and Openflow

Lecture 18 SDN

Term project (in groups): Write a report on "Large Scale Interconnection Networks: State-of-the-art, Major Recent Developments, and Future R&D Directions." Due 11:59am, Monday, December 7.

Lecture 19, 20: Mininet/Openflow Labs

Lecture 21: Paper presentation

Lecture 22: Paper presentation