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Advanced Computer Architecture

24CSE6114 · S6 · 3 credits

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Module 01Fundamentals of Quantitative Design and Analysis (5 hours)expand

Classes of Computers- Classes of parallelism and Parallel Architectures. Trends in Technology, Power and Cost. Measuring, Reporting and Summarizing Performance. Quantitative Principles of Computer Design. The Processor Performance.

Module 02Instruction Level Parallelism (7 hours)expand

Instruction Level Parallelism- Concepts and Challenges. Basic Compiler Techniques for Exposing ILP, Advanced Branch Prediction, Overcoming Data Hazards with Dynamic Scheduling- Tomasulo’s Approach. Hardware-Based Speculation.

Module 03Data and Thread Level Parallelism (8 hours)expand

Data Level Parallelism- Vector Architecture, Graphics Processing Units. Thread Level Parallelism- Multithreading: Exploiting Thread-Level Parallelism, Centralized Shared Memory, Distributed Shared Memory.

Module 04Warehouse-Scale Computers (7 hours)expand

Warehouse-Scale Computers- Programming Models and Workloads for WSC, Computer Architecture of Warehouse-Scale Computers, Efficiency and Cost. Cloud Computing. Domain-Specific Architectures -Google’s Tensor Processing Unit.

Module 05Modern Parallel Computing Paradigms (9 hours)expand

Overview Superscalar and VLIW architectures- EPIC, The Intel IA-64 Architecture. Multi- core architectures- Data marshaling for multi-core architectures, Heterogeneous core design, Core Fusion. On-chip interconnects (Network-on-Chip). Polymorphic architecture. Processing-in-Memory (PIM).

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