1. Advanced Computer Architecture 5MD00 Overview Henk Corporaal www.ics.ele.tue.nl/~heco/courses/aca h.corporaal@tue.nl TUEindhoven 2014

2. ACA H.Corporaal2 ACA summary The miniMIPS processor you built What you’ll understand after taking 5MD00 Also, the technology behind chip-scale multiprocessors

3. ACA H.Corporaal3 Course goals Learn advanced computer architecture concepts like: –ILP and Multi-issue architectures –O-O-O execution –Correlating branch prediction; –Value prediction –Advanced memory hierarchy; speedup methods –etc. Learn multi-processor architecture concepts like: –Multi-threading –Topologies –Synchronization –Coherence and Consistency –etc.

4. ACA H.Corporaal4 Also Study recent articles from top conferences and journals Perform two lab assignments on Computer Architecture –Simple Scalar processor assignment –Multi-processor assignment

5. ACA H.Corporaal5 Material Book: –Computer Architecture A quantitative approach –5 th ed. by Hennessy and Patterson Handouts and slides; see course web site: www.ics.ele.tue.nl/~heco/courses/ACA

6. ACA H.Corporaal6 Organization Credits: –5MD00: 3 credit points (ECTS) Weekly class meetings –Tuesday: 13.45 – 15.30 (every week, Helix West 3.91) –Thursday: 10.45 – 12.30 (every other week, Pt 6.23) –Very advanced Labs: largely in your own time Student literature research of TOP recent conferences –last week Oral Examination in January 2015

7. ACA H.Corporaal7 Schedule 2014-2015 (preliminary) #DateChapter (5 th ed) Topic 1Nov 11, TueCh 1Overview + Introduction (ch 1) 2Nov 13, ThuMIPS crash course 3Nov 18, TueMIPS crash course 4Nov 25, TueCh 2a + app BMemory hierarchy Design 5Nov 27, ThuCh 2bMemory hierarchy Design 6Dec 2, TueCh 3aILP / Superscalar concepts 7Dec 9, TueCh 3bILP Software techniques 8Dec 11, ThuCh 4SIMD 9Dec 16, TueCh 5aMulti-processors 1, incl Thread level parallel 10Jan 6, TueMulti-processors 2 + roofline model 11Jan 8, ThuApp FInterconnection Networks 12Jan 13, TueCh 5bMemory coherency and consistency -- finalizing lab work – Exams in week 3, 4 or 5 of 2015

8. ACA H.Corporaal8 Where is computing going?