Advanced Computer Architecture ppt

Advanced Computer Architecture

Lecturers :   Prof. dr. Henk Corporaal
                  Prof. dr. ir. R.H.J.M. Otten

Topics:

Basic principles (like instruction set design), pipelining and its consequences; VLIW (very long instruction word) architectures, Superpipelined, Superscalar, SIMD (single instruction, multiple data, used in vector and sub-wordparallel processors) and MIMD (multiple instruction, multiple data) architectures; SMT (Simultaneous Multi-Threading); Out-of-order and speculative execution; Branch prediction; Data (value) prediction; Design of advanced memory hierarchies; Memory coherency and consistency; Multi-threading; Exploiting task-level and instruction-level parallelism; Inter-processor communication models; Input and output; Network Communication Architecture; and Networks-on-Chip.

Book and Handouts

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach; 4th ed. John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson Morgan Kaufmann Publishers ISBN  9780123704900 Slides Overview slides (including preliminary schedule) Topic 1: Computer Systems Overview Topic 2: Crash course on MIPS MIPS instruction set MIPS design 1: single cycle and multi-cycle implementations MIPS design 2: pipelined implementation Topic 3: Instruction-set design Other architectures Topic 4: Instruction-Level Parallel (ILP) architectures The best of both worlds: EPIC or the Itanium architecture Topic 5: Exploiting ILP with Software approaches Topic 6: SMT: simultaneous multi-threading Guest lecture by Wouter van der Put: Time Predictability of a Computer System Topic 7: Multi-Processors  part 1 Including Synchronization, Memory Coherence, and Memory Consistency part 2 Including Interconnection Networks The TOP500 of supercomputing (note this is a big file) Topic 8 Caches and Memory Hierarchy; Many advanced techniques are discussed to speed up this memory hierarchy. At the end of this slide set a recap of cache basics (you can find this in appendix C of the book)