CS-683:
Advanced Computer Architecture
Semester: July - Nov 2016
Instructor: Virendra
Singh
Class Timings:
Office Hours:
Syllabus:
Introduction to high performance computing, RISC philosophy and overview
of pipelined architecture. Performance evaluation of pipelined architecture.
Limitations of scalar pipelines, Instruction level parallelism, superscalar
architecture, dynamic pipelines, superscalar techniques, performance evaluation
of superscalar architectures, VLIW architecture, data-level parallelism,
thread-level parallelism, simultaneous multi-threaded architectures,
instruction fetch policies in multi-threaded architectures, multi-core
architectures. Memory system design, storage system design.
References
Prerequisite:
CS-305: Computer Architecture.
In
case you have not taken CS-305 prior consent from Instructor is necessary.
Note:
Students must watch the lecture video before coming to class
Lecture Schedule (Moodle Lecture Material
Link, Video Lectures)
1.
20 July: Course
Introduction
2.
24 July: Introduction
to Computer Architecture
3.
26 July: Instruction
set architecture
4.
02 Aug: Evolution of architectures
5.
07 Aug: RISC
architecture (Single cycle, multi-cycle, and pipelined architectures)
6.
09 Aug: Pipeline
hazards
7.
14 Aug: Memory
system
8.
16 Aug: Cache
architecture
9.
21 Aug: Beyond
Pipeline
10. 23
Aug: Superscalar
architecture
11. 28
Aug: Superscalar architecture: An overview
12. 30
Aug: Instruction flow optimization: Handling branches
13. 04
Sep: Branch predictors – 1
14. 06
Sep: Branch predictors - 2
15. 18
Sep: Advanced optimization in instruction flow
16. 20
Sep: register flow techniques: Register renaming and out of order execution
17. 25
Sep: Out of order execution
18. 27
Sep: Advanced data flow techniques: Instruction reuse and value prediction
19. 02
Oct: Memory data flow
20. 05
Oct: Advanced memory data flow architectures
21. 09
Oct: Limits of superscalar architectures
22. 11
Oct: Beyond ILP
23. 11
Oct: Multi-threading
24. 15
Oct: Simultaneous multithreaded (SMT) architectures
25. 16
Oct: SMT architecture: Choices
26. 16
Oct: SMT performance on various designs
27. 22
Oct: SMT architecture: OS impact and adaptive architectures
28. 23
Oct: VLIW architectures
29. 25
Oct: Multiscalar architecture
30. 26
Oct: Multi-core Architectures
31. 30
Oct: Multicore Interconnect – NOC
32. 31
Oct: Network-on-Chip
33. 3
Nov: Cache Coherence
34. 4
Nov: Cache Consistency model
35. 10
Nov: Dynamic Core architectures
36. 11
Nov: GP-GPU Architecture
37. 12
Nov: CPU-GPU Integration