Instructor: Dr. Manikas

Text: Parallel Computer Organization and Design, M. Dubois, M. Annavaram, and P. Stenstrom, Cambridge University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-521-88675-8

Lecture: T,Th 11:00 am - 12:20 pm

THIS COURSE WILL BE TAUGHT REMOTELY (Virtual Course): All course materials will be posted on Canvas.

Catalog Description

Introduces the state of the art in uniprocessor computer architecture, with a focus on the quantitative analysis and cost-performance trade-offs in instruction set, pipeline, and memory design. Topics include quantitative analysis of performance and hardware costs, instruction set design, pipeline, delayed branch, memory organization, and advanced instruction-level parallelism.

Prerequisites

C- or better in CS 4381 or equivalent: machine organization, instruction set architecture design, memory design, control design, algorithms for computer arithmetic, microprocessors and pipelining. It is also expected that the student will have some programming background in a high-level language (e.g., C/C++, Java, Python), and assembly language.

Material Covered (tentative)

(Chapter and Topic)

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Impact of technology
• 3. Processor microarchitecture
• 4. Memory hierarchies
• 5. Multiprocessor systems
• 6. Interconnection networks

Assignments

Quizzes [15% of Grade]

Exams [75% of Grade]

Projects [10% of Grade]