1. Advanced Computer Architecture 5MD00 / 5Z033 Overview
Henk Corporaal
TUEindhoven
2013

2. ACA summary The miniMIPS processor you built
What you’ll understand after taking 5MD00 / 5Z033
Also, the technology behind chip-scale multiprocessors
Photo is of an Intel Conroe (Core 2 Duo Desktop processor). Photo taken from Intel web site.
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3. Course goals Learn advanced computer architecture concepts like:
ILP and Multi-issue architectures
O-O-O execution
Correlating branch prediction;
Value prediction
Advanced memory hierarchy; speedup methods
etc.
Learn multi-processor architecture concepts like:
Multi-threading
Topologies
Synchronization
Coherence and Consistency
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4. Also Study recent articles from top conferences and journals
Perform two lab assignments on Computer Architecture
Simple Scalar processor assignment
Multi-processor assignment
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5. Organization Credits: Weekly class meetings
5MD00: 3 credit points (ECTS)
5Z033: 4 credit points
Weekly class meetings
Monday: – (every week, Pt 2.19)
Tuesday: – (every other week, 6.05)
Labs: in your own time
Student literature research of TOP recent conferences
last week
Oral Examination in January 2013
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6. Material
Book:
Computer Architecture A quantitative approach
5th ed. by Hennessy and Patterson
Handouts and slides; see course web site:
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7. Schedule (preliminary)#
Date
Chapter (5th ed)
Topic 1
Nov 11, Mon
Ch 1
Overview + Introduction (ch 1) 2
Nov 12, Tue
MIPS crash course 3
Nov 18, Mon 4
Nov 25, Mon
Ch 2a + app B
Memory hierarchy Design 5
Nov 26, Tue
Ch 2b 6
Dec 2, Mon
Ch 3a
ILP / Superscalar concepts 7
Dec 9, Mon
Ch 3b
ILP Software techniques 8
Dec 10, Tue
Ch 4
SIMD 9
Dec 16, Mon
Ch 5a
Multi-processors 1, incl Thread level parallel 10
Jan 6, Mon
Multi-processors 2 + roofline model 11
Jan 7, Tue
App F
Interconnection Networks 12
Jan 13, Mon
Ch 5b
Memory coherency and consistency
-- finalizing lab work –
Exams in week 3 or 4 of 2013
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8. Where is computing going?
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