CSCI 6461 Computer
Architecture Section 12 Fall 2024 CRN 83607 Meets in Gelman B103 Wednesdays 6:10PM-8:40PM
Course Outline and Schedule Course Video Links |
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Date |
Topic |
References |
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8/28 |
Introduction For Next Week
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Class
Project |
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9/4 |
Basic
System Design
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Link to
supplemental files |
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9/11 |
Instruction
Set
Architecture |
Appendix K Survey of Instruction
Set Architectures Lecture 3 Instruction Set Architecture Link to supplemental files |
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9/18 |
Memory
System Design:
Term Paper Topic Due Midnight 9/17 |
H&P
Chapter 2, Appendix
B (internal to Book) Lecture 4 Memory System
Design |
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9/25 |
I/O System
Design
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Link to
supplemental files |
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10/2
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Improving
Performance Pipelining, General Considerations, Instruction and Arithmetic
Pipelines with examples |
H&P
3, Appendix A,
Appendix H MIPS
Overview |
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10/9 |
Improving
Performance Pipelining, *Project Part 1 Due Midnight 10/12 |
Lecture 8 Instruction Level
Parallelism Branch
Prediction |
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10/16 |
Catch up
on Improving
Performance |
See Above |
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10/23 |
*Project
Part 2 Due Midnight 10/26 |
H&P
4.2, 4.3 Appendix
G
Link to supplemental files |
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10/30 |
High
Performance Computing |
Lecture 10 High Performance
Computing - Multiprocessors Interconnect
Video (view at 20 minutes into video) |
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11/6 |
Multiprocessors Term
Paper Due Midnight 11/9 |
H&P Chapter 4, Appendix I
Cache Coherency Snooping Protocol Cache Coherency Directory Protocol |
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11/13 |
Multicore Architectures *Project Part 3 Due Midnight 11/16 |
Lecture 12 Multicore Architectures Link to supplemental files |
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11/20 |
GPU Architectures FINAL Exam Review |
H&P
Chapter 4 Sample Final Coherency Protocol |
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11/27 |
Thanksgiving Break - No Class |
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12/4 |
FINAL Exam 2- Hours Timed |
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12/10 |
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*All
work due by 11:59 pm 12/10/2024 |