CSCI 6461 Computer Architecture Section 10 

CRN 82989

Meets in 1776 G St. C-103 Mondays 6:10PM-8:40PM

Course Outline and Schedule

Date

Topic

References

8/26

Introduction

• Administrative topics
• Basic Concepts and History
• Class Project Discussion

For Next Week

1. At break and end of class meet with other team members
   
2. Review course material and develop questions
3. If a warmup is assigned be sure to take it.
   

Lecture 0 Administrative

Class Project   Class Project Instruction Set Architecture

        Term Paper Sample Topics   

Lecture 1 Basic Concepts

Part 1 Video with Front Panel

9/9

Lecture 2 Basic System Design

9/16

Appendix K Survey of Instruction Set Architectures

Lecture 3 Instruction Set Architecture

9/23

Memory System Design:

• Multilevel memory
• Basic cache structure and design
• Cache performance
• Replacement policies

H&P Chapter 2, Appendix B (internal to Book)

Lecture 4  Memory System Design

9/30

Lecture 6 I/O Systems

10/7

Improving Performance

Pipelining,

General Considerations,

Instruction and Arithmetic Pipelines with examples

H&P 3, Appendix A, Appendix H

Lecture 7 Performance Improvements

MIPS Overview
Pipelining
Dependencies
Compiler Techniques
More Static Technique

Improving Performance

Pipelining,
General Considerations,

Tomasulo Worksheet

Lecture 8 Instruction Level Parallelism

Branch Prediction
Dynamic Scheduling

Hardware Speculation

10/21

10/28

Vector Operations

*Project Part 2 Due Midnight  11/2

H&P 4.2, 4.3 Appendix G                 

Lecture 9 Vector Operations

11/4

High Performance Computing

Appendix F

Lecture 10 High Performance Computing - Multiprocessors

Interconnect Video (view at 20 minutes into video)

Link to supplemental files

11/11

Multiprocessors

Term Paper Due Midnight 11/10

H&P Chapter 4,  Appendix I

Lecture 11 Multiprocessors

Cache Coherency Snooping Protocol

Cache Coherency Directory Protocol

Link to supplemental files

11/18

Multicore Architectures

*Project Part 3 Due Midnight 11/22

Lecture 12 Multicore Architectures

12/2

GPU Architectures

FINAL Exam Review

H&P Chapter 4

Lecture 13 GPU Architectures

GPU Video

Link to supplemental files

12/9

FINAL Exam  2- Hours  Timed

*All work  due by 11:59 pm 12/10/2024