0907731 Advanced Computer Architecture

Course Description 

Review of computer design principles, processor design, RISC processors, pipelining, and memory hierarchy. Instruction level parallelism (ILP), dynamic scheduling, multiple issue, speculative execution, and branch prediction. Limits on ILP and software approaches to exploit more ILP. VLIW and EPIC approaches. Thread-level parallelism, multiprocessors, chip multiprocessors, and multi-threading. Cache coherence and memory consistency. Advanced memory hierarchy design, cache and memory optimizations, and memory technologies. Advanced topics in storage systems. Designing and evaluating I/O systems. (3 Credit Hours)

Slides

• 00 Course Introduction 

• 01 Fundamentals of Quantitative Design and Analysis

• 02 Review

• 03 Measuring and Evaluating Performance

• 04 Memory Hierarchy Design

• 05 Instruction-Level Parallelism and it Exploitation (Part 1)

• 06 Instruction-Level Parallelism and it Exploitation (Part 2)

• 07 Instruction-Level Parallelism and it Exploitation (Part 3)

• 08 Data-Level Parallelism (Part 1)

• 09 Data-Level Parallelism (Part 2)

• 10 Thread-Level Parallelism (Part 1)

• 11 Thread-Level Parallelism (Part 2)

• 12 Warehouse Scale Computers

• 13 Domain-Specific Architectures