Advanced Computer Architecture 5MD00 / 5Z033 Overview

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Advanced Computer Architecture5MD00 /
5Z033Overview

• Henk Corporaal
• www.ics.ele.tue.nl/heco/courses/aca
• h.corporaal_at_tue.nl
• TUEindhoven
• 2009

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Course goals

• Learn advanced computer architecture concepts
  like
• ILP and Multi-issue architectures
• O-O-O
• Correlating branch prediction Value prediction
• Advanced memory hierarchy speedup methods
• etc.
• Learn multi-processor architecture concepts like
• Multi-threading
• Topologies
• Synchronization
• Coherence and Consistency
• etc.

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Also

• Study recent articles
• Perform Lab assignment on Computer Architecture
• Simple Scalar processor assignment
• Multi-processor assignment

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Organization

• Credits
• 5MD00 3 credit points (ECTS)
• 5Z033 4 credit points
• Weekly class meetings, this quarter, in 13.03
• Tuesday 15.45 17.30
• Thursday 13.45 15.30 (roughly every other
  week)
• Labs in your own time
• Student literature research of TOP recent
  conferences
• last week
• Oral Examination in January 2010

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Material

• Book
• Computer Architecture, A quantitative approach,
  4rd edition, byHennessy and Patterson,
• Handouts and slides see course web site
  www.ics.ele.tue.nl/heco/courses/aca

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Schedule 2009 - preliminary

• Nov 10 Ch 1 Introduction
• Nov 13 App A MIPS pipelining (crash course)
• Nov 17 App B Instruction set design
• other architectures
• Nov 24 Ch 2 ILP / Superscalar architecture
  concepts
• Nov 26 Ch 3 (partly) ILP software techniques
• Dec 1 Ch 4 Multi-processors
• Dec 8 Multi-processors
• Dec 10 App E Interconnection networks
• Dec 15 Ch 5 Memory hierarchy
• Jan 5 Memory coherency and consistency
• Jan 12 Student presentations
• Jan 14 reserved
• -- finalizing lab work
• Exams in week 2 or 3 of 2010

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ACA summary