CS 422: Computer Architecture
Course Contents:
Introduction: Overview of Computer Architecture, Performance evaluation of processors, pipelining, super-pipelines, Advanced pipelines, static and dynamic scheduling, instruction-level parallelism, loop unrolling, VLIW and Super scalar processors, Vector processing and array processing.
Memory: bandwith issues, memory organization, cache coherence, Symmetric multiprocessors (SMP), NUMA-MPs, Massively parallel processors, Cache coherence protocols, Interconnection networks, I/O processing, multiprocessing, multiplexing, Examples of contemporary architectures, RAS (Reliability, Availability, Scalability) features.