ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE Syllabus

CS2354 ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE L T P C
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UNIT I INSTRUCTION LEVEL PARALLELISM 9
ILP – Concepts and challenges – Hardware and software approaches – Dynamic
scheduling – Speculation - Compiler techniques for exposing ILP – Branch prediction.
UNIT II MULTIPLE ISSUE PROCESSORS 9
VLIW & EPIC – Advanced compiler support – Hardware support for exposing parallelism
– Hardware versus software speculation mechanisms – IA 64 and Itanium processors –
Limits on ILP.
UNIT III MULTIPROCESSORS AND THREAD LEVEL PARALLELISM 9
Symmetric and distributed shared memory architectures – Performance issues –
Synchronization – Models of memory consistency – Introduction to Multithreading.
UNIT IV MEMORY AND I/O 9
Cache performance – Reducing cache miss penalty and miss rate – Reducing hit time –
Main memory and performance – Memory technology. Types of storage devices –
Buses – RAID – Reliability, availability and dependability – I/O performance measures –
Designing an I/O system.
UNIT V MULTI-CORE ARCHITECTURES 9
Software and hardware multithreading – SMT and CMP architectures – Design issues –
Case studies – Intel Multi-core architecture – SUN CMP architecture - heterogenous
multi-core processors – case study: IBM Cell Processor.
TOTAL : 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOK:
1. John L. Hennessey and David A. Patterson, “ Computer architecture – A quantitative
approach”, Morgan Kaufmann / Elsevier Publishers, 4th. edition, 2007.
REFERENCES:
1. David E. Culler, Jaswinder Pal Singh, “Parallel computing architecture : A
hardware/software approach” , Morgan Kaufmann /Elsevier Publishers, 1999.
2. Kai Hwang and Zhi.Wei Xu, “Scalable Parallel Computing”, Tata McGraw Hill, New
Delhi, 2003.