CSE 533
Advanced Computer Architectures
( Spring 2009 )

Announcements

The final takehome exam due 1^st of June, 2009 until 17:00.
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The programming project is due 22^nd of May, 2009.
Please download M-sim and make sure you can run provided benchmarks in the baseline configuration.

Homework Assignment #3 (Due: 15th of May 2009)

General Information

Instructor: Assist.Prof. Gurhan Kucuk, A-407, x1416 E-Mail: gkucuk (at) cse.yeditepe.edu.tr URL: http://cse.yeditepe.edu.tr/~gkucuk Lecture Hrs: Fri 14:00-17:00, Room: A-412 Office Hrs: TBD and by appointment


Tentative Course Syllabus Description: Fundamentals of computer design, instruction set principles, pipelining and pipeline hazards, instruction level parallelism, overcoming pipeline hazards, superscalar, superpipelined processors, memory-hierarchy design, VLIW, CMP, SMT, Dataflow, Multicluster architectures Contents: Fundamentals of Computer Design Technology and Computer Usage Trends Measuring and Reporting Performance Why Worry About Power? Fallacies and Pitfalls Pipelining Basic Principles Pipeline Hazards Handling Multicycle Operations Advanced Pipelining Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) Compiler Support for Exploiting ILP Dynamic Scheduling Reducing Branch Penalties More ILP with Multiple Issue (In-Order vs. Out-of-Order Execution Core) Memory-Hierarchy Design The ABCs of Caches Reducing Cache Misses Reducing Cache Miss Penalty Reducing Hit Time Main Memory Virtual Memory Other Directions: VLIW, SMT, CMP, Dataflow and Multicluster Machines Overview of Parallel Architectures Grading: Midterm Exam: %20 Final exam: %30 Programming Projects: %10 Paper Presentation: %10 Homeworks & Quizzes: %10 Final Project: %20 Books: John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach Second Edition Morgan Kaufman, 2002. J. Shen and M. Lipasti Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors McGraw-Hill, 2004 Lecture Notes 1-Introduction, Performance, The Iron Law, The Amdahl's Law 1 slide pp 6 slides pp Alternative Slides 1 slide pp 6 slides pp 2-Power - I 1 slide pp 6 slides pp, Supplementary Slides Power - II, Power - III 3-ISA 1 slide pp 6 slides pp 4-Pipelining 1 slide pp 6 slides pp Supplementary Notes for Pipelining, Another Set of Slides 5-Branch Prediction 1 slide pp 5-Static Scheduling 1 slide pp 6 slides pp 6-Dynamic Scheduling 1 slide pp 6 slides pp , Supplementary Slides 1 slide pp 6 slides pp 7-Register Renaming 1 slide pp 6 slides pp 8-Register Renaming with Re-Order Buffer 1 slide pp 6 slides pp 9-Memory Hierarchy Design 1 slide pp 6 slides pp 10-Virtual Memory 1 slide pp 6 slides pp Resources Download M-Sim Download Cygwin SimpleScalar Technical Report Assignments Homework Assignment #1 (Due: 20th of March 2009) Programming Assignment #1 (Due: 20th of March 2009) Grades