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CSCI 6461 Computer
Architecture Section 12 CRN 97629 Meets in Tompkins Room 205 Thursdays 6:10PM-8:40PM Course Outline and Schedule |
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Topic |
References |
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1/18 |
Introduction For Next Week
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1/25 |
Basic
System Design
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Link to
supplemental filess Recorded Lecture |
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2/1 |
Instruction
Set
Architecture |
Appendix K Survey of Instruction
Set Architectures Lecture 3 Instruction Set Architecture Link to supplemental filesRecorded Lecture |
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2/8 |
Memory
System Design:
Term Paper Topic Due Midnight 2/11 |
H&P
Chapter 2, Appendix
B Lecture 4 Memory System
Design Recorded Lecture |
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2/15 |
I/O System
Design
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Link to
supplemental files 2/13 Recorded Lecture |
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2/22
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Improving
Performance Pipelining, General Considerations, Instruction and Arithmetic
Pipelines with examples |
H&P
3, Appendix A,
Appendix H MIPS
Overview RECORDED LECTURE RECORDED LECTURE |
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| 2/29 |
Improving
Performance Pipelining, *Project Part 1 Due Midnight 3/3 |
Lecture 8 Instruction Level
Parallelism Branch
Prediction RECORDED LECTURE |
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3/7 |
Catch up
on Improving
Performance |
Tomasulo
Worksheet
Lecture
8 Instruction Level Parallelism Dynamic Scheduling Hardware Speculation RECORDED LECTURE |
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| 3/14 | Spring Break - No Class |
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3/21 |
*Project Part 2 Due Midnight 3/24 |
H&P
4.2, 4.3 Appendix
G
Link to supplemental files RECORDED LECTURE |
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3/28 |
High
Performance Computing |
Lecture 10 High Performance
Computing - Multiprocessors Interconnect
Video (view at 20 minutes into video) |
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4/4 |
Multiprocessors Term
Paper Due 4/7 |
H&P Chapter 4, Appendix I
Cache Coherency Snooping Protocol Cache Coherency Directory Protocol |
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4/11 |
Multicore Architectures *Project Part 3 Due Midnight 4/14 |
Lecture 12 Multicore Architectures Link to supplemental files |
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4/18 |
GPU Architectures FINAL Exam Review |
H&P
Chapter 4 Sample Final Coherency Protocol Recorded Final Review 1 Recorded Final Review 2 |
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4/25 |
FINAL Exam 2- Hours Timed
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*All
work due by 11:59 pm 4/29 |
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