1. EE 4xx: Computer Architecture and Performance Programming
E.g. Nehalem
Problem
Abstractions
Optimize
Code
PRAM
Programming Models
Shared memory
Message Passing …
Vectorization
Synchronization & Coordination
Scheduling
Blocking/Tiling
Data Alignment
Data Locality
Pipelining
Shared Memory
SIMD
Cache Hierarchy
Coherence
Hyper Threading
Memory Consistency
Multicore
Accelerators …

2. EE 4xx: Course Topics Architectural Concepts
Computer organization
Fixed and floating point representation
Pipeline processor implementation
Data level parallelism / SIMD
ILP, out of order execution
Cache coherence and consistency
Shared variables, atomic operations
Locks and barriers
Pipeline, Data hazards
Speculative execution
Benchmarks
Multicore processors
Expressing parallelism using PRAM
Parallel programming paradigms
Pthreads programming model
Data layout and prefetch
Simple performance models
Optimizing cache performance, e.g., matrix multiplication, graph problems
Multicore implementations
Minimizing communication time …
Architectural Concepts
Abstractions, Software & Optimizations